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[godsoffortune]

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[maskeddragon]

...What's Zeno's first wish?

[Look what you've done, Zeno, just look. You've got him referring to you in third person too now.]

[eternalshield]

Aaah, would you believe it changes sometimes?

[He laughs. He doesn't really want to get into it quite yet... or at all if possible... The other three dragons' fates here are proof enough that it might not necessarily be what he hoped.]

Anyway, it doesn't matter. Zeno's first wish is just that. The first one. All the other ones aren't necessarily worse, they're just not what comes to mind immediately. There's lots of good wishes in there. Lots of people Zeno wants to see.

[maskeddragon]

[Would he believe that? Shin-ah isn't sure. Something about the phrasing of Zeno's response feels off. Maybe it's the fact that a first wish is likely to be both; it comes to mind first because it's at the top of the list, the most keenly felt want. Which doesn't exactly make Zeno lying... just avoiding the actual answer.

Until he doesn't, and Shin-ah thinks he's grasped it anyway. Lots of wishes, clarified as lots of friends. Each wish is a different friend he wants to see, which condenses down into--]

You want to see all your friends again...

That's a good wish.

[eternalshield]

[Did he say that? That's it, though. That does strike at the core. He wants to rest, too, but he's always equated the two.]

Zeno doesn't think gods get their wishes granted, however. Or if they do, it's in service of the prayers they're answering.

[maskeddragon]

[Zeno doesn't think that he's going to get that wish granted. That seems sad to Shin-ah. But it sounds like a possible avenue for achieving it is available. If it will help-- if it even just might help...]

Then, let's answer lots of prayers.

[He wants the wish to come true.]

[eternalshield]

Answering prayers for Zeno's own gain might be dangerous.

[Not to mention the work-to-reward ratio might not fall where they liked.]

But Zeno remembers wishing for the ability to make people happy, too, so that would absolutely count, right? As a wish granted.