[Ardyn wanted desperately to chase that figure again, even knowing...knowing he wasn't hear, knowing he was again the only Glaive that wasn't. Even with the hope Akechi had given him that no one would register them as being gone...it still ached, deep in his chest, to be separate once more.]
[Ached more to know he was here, and there was no Shield to save Ardyn from his own thoughts and fears, no one to ground him and stop him from falling into memories two thousand years old, of execution after execution after execution and Angelgard and I have lived in darkness for ages--]
[He stared at the figure with wide yellow-gold eyes that didn't quite see him, and said nothing.]
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[Ached more to know he was here, and there was no Shield to save Ardyn from his own thoughts and fears, no one to ground him and stop him from falling into memories two thousand years old, of execution after execution after execution and Angelgard and I have lived in darkness for ages--]
[He stared at the figure with wide yellow-gold eyes that didn't quite see him, and said nothing.]