This is exactly what makes something dark churn within Ardyn. This is what threatens to spill bitterness over the edges of his composure, one that he is often so good at keeping approachable, frivolous, sometimes even amicable. That all of what he had worked towards had been wasted, swept aside, for what? So that he could continue existing in this way, in another world altogether? This wouldn't satisfy him. It wasn't what he wanted.
Even Ardyn cannot stop the way something flickers across his expression, a little dark; but perhaps it's the way the shadows continue to play at his face, and could be written off as little more than that.]
Yes. That part, I think, is the most difficult to reconcile. To have a purpose, and then...
[A wave of his hand.]
...for it to be gone, just like that. Some will take far longer to adjust to the change than others.
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you have no idea.
This is exactly what makes something dark churn within Ardyn. This is what threatens to spill bitterness over the edges of his composure, one that he is often so good at keeping approachable, frivolous, sometimes even amicable. That all of what he had worked towards had been wasted, swept aside, for what? So that he could continue existing in this way, in another world altogether? This wouldn't satisfy him. It wasn't what he wanted.
Even Ardyn cannot stop the way something flickers across his expression, a little dark; but perhaps it's the way the shadows continue to play at his face, and could be written off as little more than that.]
Yes. That part, I think, is the most difficult to reconcile. To have a purpose, and then...
[A wave of his hand.]
...for it to be gone, just like that. Some will take far longer to adjust to the change than others.