[Well now he feels really bad. The loss of friends through this rift travel is one thing. The loss of friends to death itself, this is far more final. Scipio has but one friend he truly cares about, whose death would devastate him--there are others he would be sad to lose, to be sure--but only Rafael could make him feel such depths. And Rafael will never die, Old Gods or no, so this is nothing he ever thinks about, but--
But. He does remember sadness, long past.]
You must take comfort, my friend, and take courage too. No matter his fall, there will be a time that he is later seen. I do-- not know much of gods, and I do not know any of them in your world. But there is no end that is truly an end. This I know. And all roads will take a man somewhere, through shadows, even--and life is sweet, but there are sweet things beyond our living, and this seems but a small thing, to hold against great pain. But you must hold it, and not be lost. Even here, far from your home. Even far from friends.
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[Well now he feels really bad. The loss of friends through this rift travel is one thing. The loss of friends to death itself, this is far more final. Scipio has but one friend he truly cares about, whose death would devastate him--there are others he would be sad to lose, to be sure--but only Rafael could make him feel such depths. And Rafael will never die, Old Gods or no, so this is nothing he ever thinks about, but--
But. He does remember sadness, long past.]
You must take comfort, my friend, and take courage too. No matter his fall, there will be a time that he is later seen. I do-- not know much of gods, and I do not know any of them in your world. But there is no end that is truly an end. This I know. And all roads will take a man somewhere, through shadows, even--and life is sweet, but there are sweet things beyond our living, and this seems but a small thing, to hold against great pain. But you must hold it, and not be lost. Even here, far from your home. Even far from friends.