wrecked land and hope

Edwyn

the goal isn't to
live forever

"True, they are." Edwyn responds reasonably enough. "But they aren't the only ones. And they aren't always good ones, at that." Many noble things had been done in the name of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, but lots of terrible things as well. If anything, the writer thinks he's a lot more logical now without such things weighing him down. "Ahh well. It isn't such a big price to pay in the end. Besides, there are ways around that." Edwyn adds with a cunning smile, meaning to leave the sex-room back in the Hollowed Grounds a mystery, but thinking about it loudly enough he might as well be shouting in Jack's ear.

"Good advice, from a man who just nearly drowned." The ascended points out with an easy smile, not meaning to offend, only pointing out the ironic timing of Jack's advice.

it's to create something that
w i l l