[If they'd gotten along splendidly from the start, he would've been not so much surprised as disbelieving. As different as all the Warriors of Light had been in terms of personality, he thought it to be likely that across all variations of their star that might exist, that none would get on amiably with Lahabrea as he was now.]
Is that another Warrior of Light trait, I wonder... talking back to every Ascian you might encounter.
[More commentary than a criticism, though; if anything, he seems a touch amused by it, though he turns back to seriousness.]
But considering who you are- no matter how polite you might be to him, what attempts you make towards understanding, you'll always be the enemy to him, nothing more.
[Unless her heroic nature could get through to Lahabrea in the end, or otherwise manage him. Emet-Selch would've assumed it impossible- but she (or rather, the hero he had known, but by extension, Irhya as well) had convinced himself of things he would've thought impossible to believe in. Maybe he should give her some credit. Trust her to handle Lahabrea, somehow. Get through to him where none on the Convocation had been able to.]
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Is that another Warrior of Light trait, I wonder... talking back to every Ascian you might encounter.
[More commentary than a criticism, though; if anything, he seems a touch amused by it, though he turns back to seriousness.]
But considering who you are- no matter how polite you might be to him, what attempts you make towards understanding, you'll always be the enemy to him, nothing more.
[Unless her heroic nature could get through to Lahabrea in the end, or otherwise manage him. Emet-Selch would've assumed it impossible- but she (or rather, the hero he had known, but by extension, Irhya as well) had convinced himself of things he would've thought impossible to believe in. Maybe he should give her some credit. Trust her to handle Lahabrea, somehow. Get through to him where none on the Convocation had been able to.]