[Ignis hears what Ravus is telling him, but the core of the words are not reaching him. At least not right now, while he's drunk and mind set on one lane to nowhere. He doesn't even react when Ravus grabs him aside from the reflexive grab onto the counter so he doesn't fall off the barstool.

He has so many questions that he will never get an answer to and that the other man will probably yell at him for again. But the alcohol had magically removed his mind to mouth filter.]

What's the point of showing me if they are not letting me change his fate? Do they draw some sadistic amusement in my helplessness? [He's seriously glad his asterisks is not on the black mage or this bar might've been set on fire.]

I never planned on leaving his side. Ever. Even after the consequences of the Ring settle in. I just-...['don't want to see him to die' dies on his lips.]