#c2e130

It’s about Veth and Jester promising Yeza and Marion that they’ll come back alive, but you know that they don’t really believe it. It’s about Caduceus telling his sister that he doesn’t think he’ll come back, but he’d like his name somewhere in the Grove if his family doesn’t get his body back.

It’s about the rest of the Nein not having anyone to say goodbye to like this, because they are already each other’s closest family. It’s about wondering if it’s better to have people you love and have to leave, or to go to your death with the people you love most at your side.

It’s Veth saying this is the last time. It’s Caduceus saying it has to be me because I don’t want it to be you.

Veth: I’ll aim for someone else

Caduceus “I love you like family and that is a threat” Clay: Fjord’s looking flammable

you mean to tell me that caduceus, high on lily juice, after a decade of solitude, had a vision of the end of the world from his deity that implied they’ll take you there so get ready?

and then he didn’t think about it again until vokodo’s mind shrapnel triggered a series of too-familiar nightmares that he just, what, wasn’t going to mention?

Jester is the one who was always optimistic, the glass isn’t just half full it’s definitely full, she always finds the silver lining. She always felt pretty confident that things were going to turn out well. Like in her books, a happy ending.

But now she knows things don’t work like that, life isn’t like her books so she’s taken a hit from that. The glass is less full. And she doesn’t even think she is coming back, she knows there’s a chance that she won’t. She isn’t sure if any of them will come back, and she is scared.

Then she talks to Fjord, trying to give him some closure with his old captain, the closest thing he had to a father. Like what she got with her parents, no unfinished business. But Fjord doesn’t want that, he says they will go see him when they are done with all of this. He says it like he’s saying the sun is going to rise tomorrow, just a fact.