Estinien bows his head forward, Yuya's question needling him somehow. It's almost absurd to him, to think that a situation like this could unfold with no one dying. If it isn't one of the Aions, it'll be civilians around them.

"...'Tis simply the way of these things, in my experience," he says. "Even the pursuit of peace will have its casualties."

He learned that well enough himself, and the thought of lost comrades weighs heavily on him now, just as the thought that what everything they did may have been for nothing.

"If you don't believe me, then suit yourself. I can only speak for what I've seen."