He has brooded often on what it means for him to be here, to have this chance that he is manifestly certain he does not deserve—he, a suicide and likely murderer, whose faith in humanity had been all but demolished at the end there. There is, he has mostly decided, no meaning; it is a freak twist of fate, and all he can do with it is to try and live the best life he can, as the man he thought he once was, or wanted to be. And it works, most of the time, but sometimes it feels like a dreadful sham.
And then Athena comes along and welcomes him like a brother, and he doesn't know what to do with it. ]
I—I don't—
[ Wait, no. ]
Athena, I—I an honoured that you'd even make such an invitation. I ... I don't know what to say.
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He has brooded often on what it means for him to be here, to have this chance that he is manifestly certain he does not deserve—he, a suicide and likely murderer, whose faith in humanity had been all but demolished at the end there. There is, he has mostly decided, no meaning; it is a freak twist of fate, and all he can do with it is to try and live the best life he can, as the man he thought he once was, or wanted to be. And it works, most of the time, but sometimes it feels like a dreadful sham.
And then Athena comes along and welcomes him like a brother, and he doesn't know what to do with it. ]
I—I don't—
[ Wait, no. ]
Athena, I—I an honoured that you'd even make such an invitation. I ... I don't know what to say.