☀️ Arselia and Akonia

— Some people actually like that, by the way. Well, when everything around them is constantly changing, which prevents life from seeming "boring," but this way of thinking is very alien to me. After all, it's better for the health of the soul when many things don't change.

—Someone might say that change is proof of life. Once, driven by similar thoughts, I left my homeland. But in the end, I came to the conclusion... it's better if these changes happen for the better. Otherwise, you can easily lose this very life.

— When hellish flames rage all around, cold is a salvation. — She blushed slightly at her not-so-elegant comparison. — Um, the forge of Krag has nothing to do with it.

—That kind of flame is enough to melt my icy soul. — Klin smiled for the first time since his transformation into the undead. — By the way, Krag urged me to perform a heroic deed, armed with this Blade... Don't get me wrong, I don't intend to do anything reckless, but still... Sometimes it seems to me that someone else could have treated this artifact with more dignity and saved hundreds, or even thousands, of innocent lives.

— A lighthouse keeper I knew in Laplace once said that there are no boring people, only unengaged listeners. And I... I'm a very engaged listener.

—Laplace, hmm? Is that where those... dinosaurs are? ...In the last years of my life, I mostly listened to others, and in the last few months, I only talked to my diary. But with you, I seem to have already talked more than I did in the beginning of June, even being... in this state, so that lighthouse keeper was probably right. Thank you, Sanexa. — It was the knight's turn to say words of gratitude.