[The fact that Ardyn takes a few minutes to reply this time around is telling. But of what? Difficult to say.]
Back to Eos, or dead and mangled in some unfathomably dark depths of the cave? There's an important difference between the two.
[He knows that Prompto can't answer this; the boy probably know as much as he does. But Ardyn feels-- well. Not happy, for uncertainty never sits well with him. Noctis is far too important to go and just get himself lost, or disappeared.]
[prompto is not the person you should be having this conversation with, considering that he doesn't uphold the caliber of an individual who can understand and should be part of the lucis caelum drama]
[in theory, anyway]
does this have to do with your being related to him?
[prompto doesn't know what he can't or shouldn't ask, and despite ardyn's general uncaring sentiment towards him, prompto tries his luck.]
[prompto had not wanted to burden the old king with having to explain such a thing, with noctis now gone. it played in his head though, the brief explanation and ardyn's use of the familiar armiger.]
[even someone like himself could connect the dots]
[Which is not helpful to Prompto at all, likely. But it's true enough. (Yes, it's because they're related; and he does rather hold no dearth of bitterness towards his own family line. And no, that's not the only reason. He wants to die -- he had died, finally, but now here he is again, living and breathing -- and Noct is the only one who could provide him peace after those endless millennia.)
[that's all prompto can really make of the entire situation. he's not prepared--nor made--to handle the likes of the lucis caelum family drama. there's no room for him in it, either way, outside of being noctis' partner and companion throughout whatever prophecy noctis has got to follow through.]
[no matter how hard prompto may try, he is fully aware that he will always just be on the way, just a spectator in the grander scheme of things]
[everything about this is a lot bigger than what he dares imagine]
that's all there is for me to say about the others
[How easily he dismisses Prompto this time around. Perhaps it's the weight of the news of Noctis leaving, or it's the fact that they've touched upon the subject of the Lucis Caelum line and his part in it, but-- Ardyn does not make an attempt to get under the boy's skin this time.
Difficult to tell if this is a blessing, or just more worrying.]
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...I told them.
Text;
Yes. Regis was quite irritated with me, you know.
How's the leg?
[What a farce of a question. As if he cares.]
Re: Text;
[is...ardyn going to give him shit for the reactions?]
[speaking of reactions, he's not sure what to make of the question. so, he doesn't... answer it...]
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Tell me what the others have been up to. Anything I should know of?
[That's how much he cared about your leg, Prompto -- so much that he doesn't ask again.]
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noct's gone
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The reply is immediate.]
What do you mean, "gone"?
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he left i guess, somehow
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Back to Eos, or dead and mangled in some unfathomably dark depths of the cave? There's an important difference between the two.
[He knows that Prompto can't answer this; the boy probably know as much as he does. But Ardyn feels-- well. Not happy, for uncertainty never sits well with him. Noctis is far too important to go and just get himself lost, or disappeared.]
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i don't know
he's just not here
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One way or another, an abandonment of those close to him. How fitting for a king.
[The rest of you might as well be rendered useless if Noct isn't here. Geez.]
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[oops, bad mood now]
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[...]
in any case he's gone back to eos
isn't that where you wanted him?
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[But maybe that's saying too much.
Regardless, there are too many variables where time is potentially concerned. And Ardyn absolutely hates feeling like he's not in control.]
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[in theory, anyway]
does this have to do with your being related to him?
[prompto doesn't know what he can't or shouldn't ask, and despite ardyn's general uncaring sentiment towards him, prompto tries his luck.]
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Still, if he had wished to hide it completely, then he never would have revealed his abilities at all.]
Did Regis finally tell you about me?
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[even someone like himself could connect the dots]
something like that
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To answer your question, yes and no.
[Which is not helpful to Prompto at all, likely. But it's true enough. (Yes, it's because they're related; and he does rather hold no dearth of bitterness towards his own family line. And no, that's not the only reason. He wants to die -- he had died, finally, but now here he is again, living and breathing -- and Noct is the only one who could provide him peace after those endless millennia.)
So yes and no.]
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[that's all prompto can really make of the entire situation. he's not prepared--nor made--to handle the likes of the lucis caelum family drama. there's no room for him in it, either way, outside of being noctis' partner and companion throughout whatever prophecy noctis has got to follow through.]
[no matter how hard prompto may try, he is fully aware that he will always just be on the way, just a spectator in the grander scheme of things]
[everything about this is a lot bigger than what he dares imagine]
that's all there is for me to say about the others
[ardyn is a scary man]
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[How easily he dismisses Prompto this time around. Perhaps it's the weight of the news of Noctis leaving, or it's the fact that they've touched upon the subject of the Lucis Caelum line and his part in it, but-- Ardyn does not make an attempt to get under the boy's skin this time.
Difficult to tell if this is a blessing, or just more worrying.]