"It sounds incredibly beautiful. I should like to see it." He gives Emet-Selch a smile as he notes the fond way he speaks.

"Perhaps you would accompany me, Emet-Selch? We could watch the sunset together." That's a perfectly normal thing for friends to do, right? Indeed, it would be like old times- though notably, they are missing Azem.

It wouldn't do to bring that up, though. So Hythlodaeus sips at his drink instead before speaking again. "I wonder how many of us are here, now? I have met several Shard-Bearers by now, both inside the tree and around Highstorm."