[ there's a humanity in daan that has not been quashed. kaveh knows how easily it is to lose that strand of it. the diadem had been shattered on the forest floor. kaveh had done so so that nobody would ever make that mistake ever again. but sachin had been the first to lose his mind, and he had done so because he had wanted to see just a shred of goodness in a world that had so very little in it.

kaveh breathes out. he opens his eyes. ]

I am glad for it. This one thing. That despite what you went through, they held no claim on your heart. That you can be true to it.

[ kaveh continues, quiet and sure: ] I am glad, too, that you allow yourself to love despite it. You truly are made of more love than that Goddess ever is.