[Does he think she doesn't know that most of the people she healed in her travels--most of the people she tried to save with her Covenants--would not survive?]

Everything born must die, Chancellor Izunia.

[Even you, she thinks, though she still does not know what, truly, he is.]

I did not give my life in service to others seeking praise or reward, nor have I any illusions that my meager efforts made any great change in the scheme of things. Ever since I was a child, I knew I had only a brief span of days in which to do the work that fell to me.

[Her mother died suddenly when she was twelve. God-speaker, long has she understood the heartbreaking brevity of a mortal lifespan.]

I chose to spend those days giving others the opportunity to do theirs. [She thinks of Noctis and his destiny. She thinks of Nyx and the power he seized and sacrificed for hers.] And at the end of the long night, there will be sunrise again, and a star upon which it dawns.

If my actions allowed some piece of the world I loved to reach the light of day once more, then I cannot call anything I did 'useless.'