I value the people who have given me their time. That includes you, too.
[ There is something to be said about the unique brand of affection that an abyssal being might produce. He's long past the point of forming romantic attachment - none of it will matter in a century, when the mortals have all died. And a century after that, the humans will come and go, a rhythm inscribed by the wheel of time.
But that doesn't imply they don't have value now. There is meaning while it lasts, even if all will turn to ash. The trails that they leave, minute beings smaller than a grain of sand - to their own perception, it can be as big as the vastness of time itself. That's what he's learned since coming here. ]
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[ There is something to be said about the unique brand of affection that an abyssal being might produce. He's long past the point of forming romantic attachment - none of it will matter in a century, when the mortals have all died. And a century after that, the humans will come and go, a rhythm inscribed by the wheel of time.
But that doesn't imply they don't have value now. There is meaning while it lasts, even if all will turn to ash. The trails that they leave, minute beings smaller than a grain of sand - to their own perception, it can be as big as the vastness of time itself. That's what he's learned since coming here. ]