[Accidental Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

[The first sound that can be heard is a loud thump as the journal hits the floor and pops open to record everything that follows.]

No...

[Emil isn't even aware that his journal is open and picking up all of this.]

No, no no please no please... no... no!!

[His voice escalates in pitch, ending in a strangled, heart-wrenching cross between a scream and a sob.]

Richter!!

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[corrinesbell]

I know it hurts, and it's gonna. But he'll be waiting for you when you get back home.

[knightofratatosk]

Sheena, you... you know what I am, right?

[corrinesbell]

[small sigh]

You're a Summon Spirit.

[knightofratatosk]

[He nods silently.]

[corrinesbell]

What about it? ...You're still yourself. [straight from the mouth of Lloyd Irving]

[knightofratatosk]

I don't know what's going to happen to me next, or what I'm going to have to do.

[Well, that's a lie. He knows he's going to have to fight Richter.]

[corrinesbell]

And you're gonna let that stand in your way?

[knightofratatosk]

I...

[corrinesbell]

Nobody knows the future, even the people here who have friends from a future time. You just can't be sure.

[knightofratatosk]

...

[He's got some idea of what the future entails, however, and he knows that it probably isn't very good for him.]

[corrinesbell]

And if you do know, why not try to change it?

[knightofratatosk]

I'm not sure it can be changed.

[corrinesbell]

It definitely won't change if you just do nothing.

[recalls a conversation almost like this with Kratos not too long ago]

If you don't try, you know things stay the same. If you do try at least there's a chance.

[knightofratatosk]

But what if trying just ends up making things worse?

[corrinesbell]

You've gotta have the courage to risk it.

[knightofratatosk]

... I can't.

[corrinesbell]

I don't believe you.

[knightofratatosk]

I can't!

[corrinesbell]

Why not?

[knightofratatosk]

Because...

[Because I'm a summon spirit, not a human. Because I'm going to have to fight Richter when I go back home, and they might NEVER bring him back here. Because we're just the toys of the Malnosso and those other beings and we can't do a damn thing about it.]

[corrinesbell]

[she won't take any of those reasons as good ones, sorry. Not as excuses for not trying to make the future better]

When we were trying to reunite the worlds, there was a lot of bad stuff that could've happened. A lot of bad stuff did happen. And it wasn't always easy and I'm not even sure we were always on the right side. But that didn't stop us from trying.

[she's being kind of quiet, while staying intense, because she doesn't want to seem like she's yelling at him]

[knightofratatosk]

Weren't you scared at all?

[corrinesbell]

Yeah. Of course we were.

[knightofratatosk]

What if something had gone really wrong and something horrible had happened?

[corrinesbell]

...It did, a couple times. [Corrine is a sore subject. So is the Great Seed wrecking Palmacosta. But other bad things happened too] But we kept going. We had to. No one else was gonna save the world.