Mm. Small comforts... But perhaps those are the most important kind.
[ Midnight grins. This story really did stick with him for a lot of reasons, but the faint happiness in the end was something one has to imagine. ]
I'm surprised you're a little more sympathetic with regard to the fruit of the old emperor's labor. A man of his age and wisdom could have done much to try and set things to rights long before he'd decided that the lives of a boy and his parents were his parting gift to the world.
[ He hums. ]
Or perhaps he'd been complicit in the fall of his empire. Some sort of figurehead, one unfit for rule long before illness took him. Or perhaps there was nothing he could have done, either.
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[ Midnight grins. This story really did stick with him for a lot of reasons, but the faint happiness in the end was something one has to imagine. ]
I'm surprised you're a little more sympathetic with regard to the fruit of the old emperor's labor. A man of his age and wisdom could have done much to try and set things to rights long before he'd decided that the lives of a boy and his parents were his parting gift to the world.
[ He hums. ]
Or perhaps he'd been complicit in the fall of his empire. Some sort of figurehead, one unfit for rule long before illness took him. Or perhaps there was nothing he could have done, either.