She gently stroked the young dragon gradually losing consciousness:
"You should feel proud; not many can become eternal in such a way."
The memory passed to Nari, the pain of the body being dissected was merely superficial.
What brought her true skin-deep agony was the despair of "being abandoned by family, regarded as an object."
As the last vestige of memory's echo vanished in the air of the Room of Origin, the entire space fell into a nearly suffocating silence.
Nari's hundreds of eyes slowly closed, her consciousness deeply immersed in the pain she had just "experienced."
It was a more direct emotional resonance.
As one equally yearning for "family," she could completely feel the kind of bone-chilling cold Aselia felt when betrayed.
Being regarded as "material" and "tool" by the one you trusted the most...
This experience shatters not just the body, but also the basic trust in the world, in others, and in "love" itself.
After a long silence, Nari reopened her eyes.
