[ Yes, he will take that second hand, as he's already pushed himself enough for one day between fighting a wyvern and healing Jill. He dusts himself off gently after standing and wipes some of the remaining flecks of blood from his face and neck before starting down the direction of their apartments. ]
Of all the more cruel ways to toy with us, sending us to a world absent of the trials of our own may be the cruelest, especially when Ultima yet awaits, a threat still lying just out of our reaches. I am almost inclined to believe he may have orchestrated this to hold us off from our goal even longer.
[ But this magic is surely different, as are the people here. They don't seem to be under Ultima's control, and Joshua is sure he'd feel it if Ultima were at all emboldened by this world. However, the fiend has gone completely quiet, as he had in the days during Joshua's distance from Clive.
His fingers graze over his chest, half-expecting it to spark some sort response. ]
...I will see what information I can gather once we return, though I fear there may be no clear path home.
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Of all the more cruel ways to toy with us, sending us to a world absent of the trials of our own may be the cruelest, especially when Ultima yet awaits, a threat still lying just out of our reaches. I am almost inclined to believe he may have orchestrated this to hold us off from our goal even longer.
[ But this magic is surely different, as are the people here. They don't seem to be under Ultima's control, and Joshua is sure he'd feel it if Ultima were at all emboldened by this world. However, the fiend has gone completely quiet, as he had in the days during Joshua's distance from Clive.
His fingers graze over his chest, half-expecting it to spark some sort response. ]
...I will see what information I can gather once we return, though I fear there may be no clear path home.