I have nothing to gain from this. I could run away now and leave you to do as you please.
[If anything, he's doing this for her own benefit. But perhaps she'll be patronised, rather than encouraged by such a response, and understandably so, so he continues.]
But when I saw you in the courtroom... I understood perfectly how you felt in that moment. You hate the Regent. You want to destroy them, and anyone who dares cooperate with them. Maybe there's someone you want to avenge, maybe you want to avenge your homeland, or your whole world... But that feeling has consumed you more than anything since you arrived on Horos. It's eating you alive.
[His time is ticking down, the sand in the hourglass running its course. He needs to get to the point.]
I understand because I feel the same way. I had no choice when I joined the Kenoma, but if I could destroy the Regent right now, I would.
[Even without direct Communion, even with the sect dividing them, she might be able to gauge from that faint empathic link Aions share that he's telling the truth. That his all-consuming, deep-seated rage is just as genuine as hers, that it has nothing to do with being Kenoma or Pleroma. Surely that's a more honest form of evidence than any information he could try to bribe her with.]
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[If anything, he's doing this for her own benefit. But perhaps she'll be patronised, rather than encouraged by such a response, and understandably so, so he continues.]
But when I saw you in the courtroom... I understood perfectly how you felt in that moment. You hate the Regent. You want to destroy them, and anyone who dares cooperate with them. Maybe there's someone you want to avenge, maybe you want to avenge your homeland, or your whole world... But that feeling has consumed you more than anything since you arrived on Horos. It's eating you alive.
[His time is ticking down, the sand in the hourglass running its course. He needs to get to the point.]
I understand because I feel the same way. I had no choice when I joined the Kenoma, but if I could destroy the Regent right now, I would.
[Even without direct Communion, even with the sect dividing them, she might be able to gauge from that faint empathic link Aions share that he's telling the truth. That his all-consuming, deep-seated rage is just as genuine as hers, that it has nothing to do with being Kenoma or Pleroma. Surely that's a more honest form of evidence than any information he could try to bribe her with.]