[Lunafreya lets her own hand slip back to her side. She watches him steadily, unblinking as she accesses him.
The Ardyn she knows would've made a grand gesture, a sly threat hidden under witticisms. Rage and cruelty simmered just under the surface of his mask. This Ardyn has none of that, and she knows what she felt just now. Like the Wall that had covered Crown City, or the fortress-like Citadel, the darkness she'd been expecting to pour out of him had been blockaded instead. Guarding and protective in feeling like King Regis' magic had been, with a similar twinge of desperation behind it.]
No. You're right. I don't think you are. Somehow, you are him from before the taint took irreversible hold.
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The Ardyn she knows would've made a grand gesture, a sly threat hidden under witticisms. Rage and cruelty simmered just under the surface of his mask. This Ardyn has none of that, and she knows what she felt just now. Like the Wall that had covered Crown City, or the fortress-like Citadel, the darkness she'd been expecting to pour out of him had been blockaded instead. Guarding and protective in feeling like King Regis' magic had been, with a similar twinge of desperation behind it.]
No. You're right. I don't think you are. Somehow, you are him from before the taint took irreversible hold.