[ Zhongli returns the soft smile, but this one does reach his eyes. It breathes golden light into them that had been absent for days as they languished within this dying cavern like two lanterns before offered up into an evening sky. And it is a fond smile, so very very fond.
Zhongli loves (not loved) his home more than anything. More than a heart of stone should be capable of loving. ]
It can never be truly gone as long as its memories are treasured in the hearts and memories of the living. It's not all gone because I am here as well as four others from my home world. It refuses to fade away silently, surfacing again and again as a trinket here or an item there finding its way into the cluttered merchant stalls of the baubles market. By the creatures found in the depths of Aetos laboratory.
[ Zhongli could stop there, question answered on a technicality. But for someone as earnest as Vash - for someone as kindhearted and strong as he is, he does not deserve the vague answers and omissions that Zhongli normally weaves through his words. Perhaps Vash will be able to understand why others (and to some degree Zhongli himself) could not. For while Zhongli's heart is with Meridian, his soul stands with Zenith.
When the door opens--- ]
But that is not the question you were asking, is it?
I do not know if the world I love is gone nor do I have any way to verify the truth of such a statement. It is true that I could spend my efforts trying to answer that question. But I also know that right now this world is wondrously alive and also suffering terribly. Does this world deserve my love any less only because I stumbled upon it second?
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Zhongli loves (not loved) his home more than anything. More than a heart of stone should be capable of loving. ]
It can never be truly gone as long as its memories are treasured in the hearts and memories of the living. It's not all gone because I am here as well as four others from my home world. It refuses to fade away silently, surfacing again and again as a trinket here or an item there finding its way into the cluttered merchant stalls of the baubles market. By the creatures found in the depths of Aetos laboratory.
[ Zhongli could stop there, question answered on a technicality. But for someone as earnest as Vash - for someone as kindhearted and strong as he is, he does not deserve the vague answers and omissions that Zhongli normally weaves through his words. Perhaps Vash will be able to understand why others (and to some degree Zhongli himself) could not. For while Zhongli's heart is with Meridian, his soul stands with Zenith.
When the door opens--- ]
But that is not the question you were asking, is it?
I do not know if the world I love is gone nor do I have any way to verify the truth of such a statement. It is true that I could spend my efforts trying to answer that question. But I also know that right now this world is wondrously alive and also suffering terribly. Does this world deserve my love any less only because I stumbled upon it second?