[It's kind, even if it's untrue. Ignis was always better at managing their resources than he was, and potions in this place were easy enough to make, but it still feels wasteful to him after so long on the road, when they'd spent all those hours wandering into the depths of the earth where all the fiercest daemons dwelled, learning how to bandage the shallowest cuts and save the potions for when one of them was on death's door instead.
Besides, potions don't help with this kind of pain. He's always known that, ever since Marilith.
The mention of Lunafreya makes him hesitate, and he considers it briefly before shaking his head.]
I don't... want to drag her into this. She's done enough for me already when it comes to the ring. I don't want it to hurt her.
["It is heavy," she'd told him, "And I am tired." Those words, and the way she'd spoken them, had given him plenty of cause to promise to himself that he would never let the ring harm her again. And that means keeping it the hell away from her, no matter the cost.]
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[It's kind, even if it's untrue. Ignis was always better at managing their resources than he was, and potions in this place were easy enough to make, but it still feels wasteful to him after so long on the road, when they'd spent all those hours wandering into the depths of the earth where all the fiercest daemons dwelled, learning how to bandage the shallowest cuts and save the potions for when one of them was on death's door instead.
Besides, potions don't help with this kind of pain. He's always known that, ever since Marilith.
The mention of Lunafreya makes him hesitate, and he considers it briefly before shaking his head.]
I don't... want to drag her into this. She's done enough for me already when it comes to the ring. I don't want it to hurt her.
["It is heavy," she'd told him, "And I am tired." Those words, and the way she'd spoken them, had given him plenty of cause to promise to himself that he would never let the ring harm her again. And that means keeping it the hell away from her, no matter the cost.]