The change you ask requires my giving up on everything I hold dear. Abandoning them. Naturally, I realize that I'm asking the same thing of all of you.
[Even if Emet-Selch viewed it as short-sighted and borne of ignorance, it was comprehensible. That was part of why it was so frustrating. They weren't doing it out of spite, or cruelty, or even indifference. They all cared. Everyone cared too damn much, that was the problem.]
I can't say I'm optimistic of our chances.
...Well, I would have believed it impossible to be dragged into a place like this against my will, so who knows? Some miracle may yet occur. Perhaps there's some third option none of us have considered. Perhaps this will be the first time in thousands upon thousands of years that you mortals won't disappoint me.
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[Even if Emet-Selch viewed it as short-sighted and borne of ignorance, it was comprehensible. That was part of why it was so frustrating. They weren't doing it out of spite, or cruelty, or even indifference. They all cared. Everyone cared too damn much, that was the problem.]
I can't say I'm optimistic of our chances.
...Well, I would have believed it impossible to be dragged into a place like this against my will, so who knows? Some miracle may yet occur. Perhaps there's some third option none of us have considered. Perhaps this will be the first time in thousands upon thousands of years that you mortals won't disappoint me.
[But he doubted it.]