60th moon [The name is Wall. Fourth Wall.]

[paladinlost]

[Seriously, guys.

Cecil likes travelling. He was looking forward to being on the road. Did you have to teleport him to his destination? Again?

...He'll be amusing himself by switching between paladin and dark knight form for now. It's not like he has anything better to do.]

Comments

[paladinlost]

It can even be a pleasant life, as long as you accept that it can end at any time.

[dragoon_pride]

As is the case with all life.

[paladinlost]

These ends come with even less of a warning than usual.

[dragoon_pride]

How terrible for everyone involved.

[paladinlost]

We try to warn those who arrive, but it's not always easy to comprehend at first.

[dragoon_pride]

I can see that it would be a difficult adjustment, indeed.

[paladinlost]

Most learn, at least, or leave before they need to do so.

[dragoon_pride]

I see... it might be easier on those who leave before needing to learn it.

[paladinlost]

It is, but that makes it much harder on those that watch them go.

[dragoon_pride]

I can imagine that it would... what a terrible burden.

[paladinlost]

We manage. Everyone else is supportive during those moments.

[dragoon_pride]

It still must take its toll over time.

[paladinlost]

...More than we'd like to admit, most days.

[dragoon_pride]

How terrible. At least during the war we would forget others if they failed to return in a following cycle.

[paladinlost]

...'At least'? Forgetting is a much worse fate than missing loved ones.

[dragoon_pride]

Yet the burden of missing them is gone, isn't it?

[paladinlost]

I'd much rather have both the good and the bad than have neither.

[dragoon_pride]

You're certain about that? No matter how painful it might be?

[paladinlost]

Of course. Those few moments of sweetness are worth everything else.

[dragoon_pride]

I suppose...

[He seems doubtful.]

[paladinlost]

Besides, if I were to forget everyone I've lost, who would I still have?

[dragoon_pride]

No one whatsoever... I guess given that, I can see why you'd not want to lose them in such a way.

[paladinlost]

Once you start forgetting, you stop learning and growing.

[dragoon_pride]

It's not as if we were given a choice about forgetting, in the cycles of war.

[paladinlost]

Which is quite probably why it took us so long to break it.