"As villains... they were only trying to do the right thing," Felih murmurs quietly. "They didn't know they'd tip the balance so lethally towards the light, in pursuit of justice. And they gave everything to come back and stop the Flood- isn't that why this world still lives? It must be- people say that Minfilia was the one who stopped it, and they went with her..."

The mention of beating the answers out of him makes Felih puff up, though.

"Please don't," comes the rushed answer. "He's feeble and crystalline and I fear he'd truly shatter and leave us both without answers and also, stranded."