[An important distinction, to his mind. They do not belong here, even less than did the Warrior of Light and her friends, Crystal Tower and all, belong on the First. The First and the Source were at least connected, once parts of one whole.]
Someday, we will return.
[Perhaps a shockingly optimistic view, from the normally exhausted, pessimistic Ascian... But how can he hold to any other belief, in the shoes he has stood in for so many millennia? They will return to the star of their mutual, widely-separated birth, one way or another. He believes it the same way that he believes that the Ardor will someday occur.]
This little tree, however, has nowhere to return to. Grow or falter, it will remain here.
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[An important distinction, to his mind. They do not belong here, even less than did the Warrior of Light and her friends, Crystal Tower and all, belong on the First. The First and the Source were at least connected, once parts of one whole.]
Someday, we will return.
[Perhaps a shockingly optimistic view, from the normally exhausted, pessimistic Ascian... But how can he hold to any other belief, in the shoes he has stood in for so many millennia? They will return to the star of their mutual, widely-separated birth, one way or another. He believes it the same way that he believes that the Ardor will someday occur.]
This little tree, however, has nowhere to return to. Grow or falter, it will remain here.