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[astralera]

Ardbert is here.

[scourgingstars]

i am quite aware, my friend

we happened to encounter one another, in fact

[astralera]

He's lovely, isn't he?

[scourgingstars]

there is no doubt you two are one and the same at your core, certainly. he's possessed of the same unfailingly kind heart.

[astralera]

[ this is supposed to be about Ardbert, Ardyn! don't bring her into this! ]

Whatever I am, it is only because his soul makes mine burn brighter. I can only hope to repay him for all he has done, for without him I would be...

...Well, you are aware of what he did for me.

[scourgingstars]

I am aware, of course. This does little to change my evaluation of the pair of you.

[astralera]

He is not nearly so selfish as I.

I hope you will be a friend to him, as you have been for me.

[scourgingstars]

Such would only be my honor, I assure you.

[astralera]

Full glad am I to hear it.

And what of you? I have been so preoccupied... I haven't spoken to you in some time, have I? Have you been well?

[scourgingstars]

I have been well enough. I was myself preoccupied with Cor and Regis having briefly taken ill for a time, but it seems the pair of them have recovered with minimal issue.

1/3

[astralera]

Yes, I had heard of them both falling ill. I had my assumptions that Dad was suffering a coma much like I myself did, gaining future memories of home. Was I incorrect?

2/3

[astralera]

Regis.

hit by a tb called 'embarrassment'

[astralera]

I meant to say Regis.

Has he recovered with the addition of new memories?

ardyn doesn't know vercure yet

[scourgingstars]

echo problems, i take it

[He of all people knew memories were...a touchy thing.]

i think he will be fine, with a bit more time to adjust.

verraise her up, ardyn ):

[astralera]

I haven't interacted with him since then... I suppose it does not help that he reminds me of my Papa.

It was an adjustment, when it happened to me. All the things I'd learned while here... The feelings that bloomed in my heart that are absent at home. It was painful, to be so empty and then to be so full. To sort out the new timeline of my memories...

I hope that for him it will not cause such difficulties.

[scourgingstars]

you need not worry overmuch, my friend. not to say that i imagine the shift an easy one by any means, but that our family and his friends will ever be there to offer aid.

and of course, the same ever applies to you.

[astralera]

I will try not to worry so, but knowing what I do of you and yours that is not an easy task.

[scourgingstars]

we're a worrisome lot, i am quite aware of this as well. house caelum is naught but trouble and entanglements for two millennia worth of either.

[astralera]

By virtue of the Echo, your family feels as family to my heart.

You are the only one I know my feelings for are all my own, Ardyn.

[scourgingstars]

you flatter me with your kindness, my friend.

[astralera]

It is not kindness, brother. It is merely the truth of things.

[scourgingstars]

the truth can be a kind thing, on the rarest of occasions. and i would thank you for it all the same.

[astralera]

Then you are welcome, Ardyn.

Will you have any free time on the tenth?

[scourgingstars]

i can think of little reason i would not, why?

[astralera]

I will have a creamy lamb stew and a light, citrus cake that day. I wish to share it with those most important to me here.