[Kratos, for his part, is still apparently focussed on following the child and navigating the unfamiliar streets, taking in his surroundings. He's not opposed to discussing things now, for perhaps opposing reasons; he's too used to forever holding off. It's something he's trying to work on.
[Besides, talking while walking keeps him from thinking too hard about the subject of conversation, and the pang of regret and homesickness he's been steadily ignoring since Derris-Kharlan left Aselia's orbit.]
Yes. He wanted to take his own journey to collect all the exspheres in Aselia, but we have -- had -- stores of exspheres on Derris-Kharlan, and someone needed to be sent there to attend to them before it broke outer orbit. I ... told him I would send them into space.
[That's what he'd said; but Kratos had destroyed them. Lloyd's too young to understand the burden of living without an end in sight, and if there was any chance a soul might still exist in those exspheres, Kratos wasn't going to make them suffer further. It hadn't been a lie, precisely. He did send them into space ... into a sun. It was the worthiest funeral pyre Kratos could imagine, for the suffering the exsphere souls had endured.]
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[Kratos, for his part, is still apparently focussed on following the child and navigating the unfamiliar streets, taking in his surroundings. He's not opposed to discussing things now, for perhaps opposing reasons; he's too used to forever holding off. It's something he's trying to work on.
[Besides, talking while walking keeps him from thinking too hard about the subject of conversation, and the pang of regret and homesickness he's been steadily ignoring since Derris-Kharlan left Aselia's orbit.]
Yes. He wanted to take his own journey to collect all the exspheres in Aselia, but we have -- had -- stores of exspheres on Derris-Kharlan, and someone needed to be sent there to attend to them before it broke outer orbit. I ... told him I would send them into space.
[That's what he'd said; but Kratos had destroyed them. Lloyd's too young to understand the burden of living without an end in sight, and if there was any chance a soul might still exist in those exspheres, Kratos wasn't going to make them suffer further. It hadn't been a lie, precisely. He did send them into space ... into a sun. It was the worthiest funeral pyre Kratos could imagine, for the suffering the exsphere souls had endured.]