[The breeze from the ocean brings with it droplets of salt water from the crashing waves. His tears have already been shed, but this semblance of them suits his contemplation.
Had Lunafreya known? He had played the part of traitor brother well...so well that she had not hesitated to make her escape with Regis while Ravus lay collapsed in the Lucian throne room, burned by the Ring. There had been no turning back like she had that long-ago day in Tenebrae. Part of the distance he had put between them had been to ensure that she would not have to sacrifice herself for his sake a second time, but that memory still felt like a knife wound in his chest.]
You speak of things you do not know.
[But there is a sort of comfort in Gladio's faith, the insistence that Ravus was not forsaken. He doesn't immediately slap the hand away.]
I was able to meet with her, before she awoke Leviathan. What misunderstandings there were between us, we put aside. It was so little, at so late an hour, but I can hope it was enough to reassure her that I had not abandoned her.
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Had Lunafreya known? He had played the part of traitor brother well...so well that she had not hesitated to make her escape with Regis while Ravus lay collapsed in the Lucian throne room, burned by the Ring. There had been no turning back like she had that long-ago day in Tenebrae. Part of the distance he had put between them had been to ensure that she would not have to sacrifice herself for his sake a second time, but that memory still felt like a knife wound in his chest.]
You speak of things you do not know.
[But there is a sort of comfort in Gladio's faith, the insistence that Ravus was not forsaken. He doesn't immediately slap the hand away.]
I was able to meet with her, before she awoke Leviathan. What misunderstandings there were between us, we put aside. It was so little, at so late an hour, but I can hope it was enough to reassure her that I had not abandoned her.