[this seems... strange, to him. it's obvious on his face. his head tilts...]
Hm. [on the one hand, he can see emet-selch wanting to leave the dead as dead, because - well, so would hythlodaeus. it isn't right to drag them from the sea once they'd returned to it, but this is different, he thinks. if it was anything like his own, the dead were never truly dead, never released to the aether. it was always more... purgatory. always a little more like his own experience with zodiark.
silence, for a moment, and then:] The Emet-Selch I know has ever been reluctant to show he cares. But he does, deeply - people the world over have expressed their fondest well wishes for him, after he had lent a helping hand. I cannot see him saying no, despite his often brooding and cantankerous nature.
Interesting... I wonder if it is truly the same Emet-Selch. [he doesn't doubt that it is so much - really, he sounds more worried than anything else.] Had he ever removed his mask or hood in your presence?
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Hm. [on the one hand, he can see emet-selch wanting to leave the dead as dead, because - well, so would hythlodaeus. it isn't right to drag them from the sea once they'd returned to it, but this is different, he thinks. if it was anything like his own, the dead were never truly dead, never released to the aether. it was always more... purgatory. always a little more like his own experience with zodiark.
silence, for a moment, and then:] The Emet-Selch I know has ever been reluctant to show he cares. But he does, deeply - people the world over have expressed their fondest well wishes for him, after he had lent a helping hand. I cannot see him saying no, despite his often brooding and cantankerous nature.
Interesting... I wonder if it is truly the same Emet-Selch. [he doesn't doubt that it is so much - really, he sounds more worried than anything else.] Had he ever removed his mask or hood in your presence?