[To have that sort of, what? Blind faith in a man so riddled with curses? Some may call it naive, but Ardyn finds it skirting between the lines of amusing and hitting too close to home to call it such. It's obvious that his interest refuses to wane, that there are many turns of phrases that keep him listening intently.]

The potential sacrifice of an entire world is a very large price to pay so that one man might have a chance to really, truly live.

[His grin sharpens a little, knowing the twisted irony in his following statement. The wrongness of it, and yet... he can hardly judge.]

How very kind of you. [A beat.] This story you've told me... Do you know that it runs rather parallel with my own?