You can't create something from nothing, huh? [A little, understanding hum.] For everything a person gains, they'll lose something else. I'm guessing it was worth it, though?
[But she sounds a little wistful, or maybe confused? That is right, isn't it? It feels like there's something wrong about what he just said, but she can't quite put her finger on it. She made the trade out of determination, as he said, so then why. . .]
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Eh? Really? Like, you're banished or something...? Or you just can't live out there anymore, with what you are now?
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He folds his hands behind his back, turning in a little circle on the moss.]
Are you cursed, then? Or is it some type of curse?
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I suppose you could look at it that way. As a form of existence, there's power, and then there's the price.
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. . . No. But it was necessary.
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Mm... Not many people would still choose to make a trade like that, I think. You're pretty determined, huh?
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[But she sounds a little wistful, or maybe confused? That is right, isn't it? It feels like there's something wrong about what he just said, but she can't quite put her finger on it. She made the trade out of determination, as he said, so then why. . .]
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...Is there a "but" there, or something else?
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Hey, you'll tell me if I say something that bothers you, right?
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[She's just confused, but not troubled.]
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Mm, okay! Thanks. It's a little harder for me to tell how people feel like this.