Ah, the lies youths will tell themselves about their elders... Some things really never change.
[ If only that applied to more things... Ah, but this was hardly the time for waxing maudlin. Ardyn had called on him to lift his own spirits, after all. And though he was hardly qualified, being himself so hollowed out, he owed the man the courtesy of the pretense. ]
I am most gratified to hear that you will keep me in mind. I assure you, I would do you the same courtesy, were i to find myself in a similar position.
You never really have told me about your own family. Near as estranged as mine, or so I understand. [ He didn't really want to know, but it was only fair game. If he got to use Emet-Selch to horrify one of his, then Emet-Selch could use him to scandalize one of his.
Well, the grandson, most likely. There had been some tiny affection for the son, and the great-grandson had been an utter lunatic, if the memories he had seen were true. ]
I assure you, I will be your disgustingly attentive partner when you need one to horrify them.
[ In Ardyn's experience, people like that were excessively dull. There was no greater scope to their single-mindedness. Whatever the great-grandson had inherited through his soul from Emet-Selch, it hadn't been expressed well. The undying conviction to Zodiark at least had merit, and the sad tale of a world sundered into fourteen pieces, with you one as the only remaining complete beings, at least gave a noble sort of tragedy to the whole thing.
Just charging down target after target to find something to challenge was all but animal, like a rutting male looking for rival suitors to better display his tusks.
He gave a sympathetic tut. ]
Ah, such a good thing we've learned not to pin our hopes on the young, isn't it? What's that old phrase... 'if you want something done right...'
Quite so. I even had to come back from my feigned death to take the reins back from my poor grandson. And Zenos could not even manage not to die before his time, short as that was anyway. The last I saw of him was merely his corpse, borrowed by one of my colleagues.
What a terribly discourteous colleague you had! [ Presumably there had been no love lost there; a mad dog wasn't mourned when it was put down, blood relative or not. ] The polite thing to have done would have been at least give you some kind of downpayment for your work in making the vessel.
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[ If only that applied to more things... Ah, but this was hardly the time for waxing maudlin. Ardyn had called on him to lift his own spirits, after all. And though he was hardly qualified, being himself so hollowed out, he owed the man the courtesy of the pretense. ]
I am most gratified to hear that you will keep me in mind. I assure you, I would do you the same courtesy, were i to find myself in a similar position.
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Well, the grandson, most likely. There had been some tiny affection for the son, and the great-grandson had been an utter lunatic, if the memories he had seen were true. ]
I assure you, I will be your disgustingly attentive partner when you need one to horrify them.
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[Though not more so than he was, with that brief, misguided hope he's held.]
That would be rather fun, should my grandson, Varis, make an appearance. He would be properly scandalized! Ah, but Zenos... [He heaved a heavy sigh.]
One did worry about that boy. All he ever managed to care about was his Hunt.
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Just charging down target after target to find something to challenge was all but animal, like a rutting male looking for rival suitors to better display his tusks.
He gave a sympathetic tut. ]
Ah, such a good thing we've learned not to pin our hopes on the young, isn't it? What's that old phrase... 'if you want something done right...'
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[He tutted.]
So it goes, with that kind.
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[ He winked at him. ]