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"You have reached the voicemail of Dignity. Please leave a message after the beep."

My standards are completely reasonable.

Perfection at all times? My, even I am not quite so ambitious.

I said nothing about perfection.

And yet that is essentially what you seem to desire. If you wished to save me in either instance it would require having such foresight and alacrity as to prevent the events or appear at the right moment to divert their course, if any of us had such powers of prescience we would all be in a better situation.

Instead we have ever relied on splitting up and trusting one another to do their part. It served us well for eons, until it did not. That is not your failing.

[no response. he doesn't have any real counterargument, but he can't bring himself to agree either]

[He strokes his back. ]

I have my own regrets, reasonable and unreasonable. It is not as if I do not understand.

...I know. Thank you.

I just do not want you to feel you have ever failed us, Elidibus. That could not be further from the truth.

...I doubt I will ever be able to stop feeling like I have.

...I also feel I've failed you and Hades. Perhaps it is inevitable to be unreasonable.

Perhaps it is just a result of everything we've been through.

Do you think Emet-Selch feels that way too?

He has his own worries, certainly. The things he wishes he could have changed perhaps.

On second thought, it was foolish of me to even ask. With his sentimental nature, I would not be surprised if he worried more than the two of us combined.

And yet he chides me for worrying too much.