🧪 ( He smiles, eyes twinkling in a way that Amon's never did. )

Thank you, friend.

🧪 You don't see the issue here! ( He is rubbing his temples. ) It is not the "getting inside" that is the problem, we have 3 entire dragons! It is the "what is it doing" and the "how is it doing it" and "how do we get the dragons out SAFELY"!

🧪 Am I a disappointment to you too, Xelor?

I remember the sensation of being seared by Light from the inside out. The freezing cold dread at the white that spilled from my lips.

The grief when I realized that in exchange for my life, that long suffering soul, nobler than mine, dissolved itself.

I still do not have my own name. )

🧪 ( Some people don't even really exist. That is one thing that me and him both know.

I did not exist. No one particularly wanted me to, either.

I do not share my story, much. Amon's, yes. Sometimes even /his/, if it is something which I know he would not care about me revealing.

🧪 We're working on that, okay?! But it'll be more successful if we think about it together instead of ramming your noggin' in it!

🧪 He... wouldn't.

🧪 The dragons are very much inside, and if you just slam yourself into it all willy-nilly, you're just going to blow them and yourself up, alright?!

( He has his head in a hand. )

🧪 SIR! SIR PLEASE!

🧪 EXCUSE ME SIR CAN YOU STOP THAT PLEASE?

🧪 Not in the same body... as you might imagine. But technically yes.

🧪 This is a mess.

🧪 He... doesn't really associate with that part of his life anymore.

🧪 VRTRA! AZDAJA!

🧪 NO GIGAFLARES

🧪 PLEASE JUST GET ON THE PRINCESS ZENOS DRAGON.

🧪 Um. Er. So. I'm not.... talking about.... me.....?

🧪 ( Drags a hand over his face for a moment, before throwing his hands in the air. )

VRTRA AND AZDAJA ARE IN NEODALAMUD

🧪 But he's not

....

Er.

🧪 Bring him-- huh?

🧪 Err, actually, I dont recall Azdaja's formal title...

🧪 I don't know... I...

Perhaps... it was a mistake to tell them that he truly did value them...

🧪 HEY EVERYONE, WE HAVE A RIDE TO THE NEW MOON, WHO'S COMING?

ALSO THE SATRAP AND HIS AMBASSADOR ARE INSIDE, PLEASE DON'T OBLITERATE IT.

🧪 Standing clear! ( LEAPS TO THE SIDE. )

🧪 I... couldn't be what they needed me to be.

🧪 THE SATRAP IS IN THERE, XELOR

🧪 Um. No. But Dalamud has always been essentially a giant source of energy, a conduit and generator both... so whatever they're trying to do requires a disgusting amount of power to operate...

🧪 NO! No. Just. I'm sure we'll get some volunteers to go up there. If you could just, pave the way perhaps, your highness...? Please?