"Lord Crossbridge, to me, you are someone truly special."
Kartora's voice trembled faintly as she spoke, the soft shimmer of her silver hair reflecting the warm hues of the dying sunlight."You might not know this, but gods who govern the domain of time… are the loneliest beings in the entire universe."
She paused, lowering her gaze for a long moment before lifting it again. When her eyes met Daniel's, a faint glimmer of tears gathered in their depths.
"When I travel through the River of Time," she continued, "I am always so painfully alone. That loneliness… it nearly breaks me."
"The people I know, the world I once understood—everything I've ever been familiar with—becomes fragile like glass before the current of time. All it takes is a single step across an era, and everything shatters into dust."
"I feel as though I've drifted outside of existence itself, unable to truly feel what this world is anymore… unable to grasp what emotions even mean."
