[Someone was in fact paying attention to the two of them.]
[It was an odd sort of feeling, knowing that outside of the desert he would have immediately snapped into a bitter laugh, all I told you so and finally found something better, did you? Jealousy, bitterness, hatred, everything that came so easy to him proven right in an instant.]
[But that wasn't who he was in the desert. The best of Ardyn Lucis Caelum could never be selfish, not even in the slightest. If this was how things unfolded, fine. He'd expected it, was even relieved in part that sense and logic had finally won out.]
[So he just looked on for a moment in a distant and resigned sort of way, gave Gladio a tired smile that seemed to say 'oh, go on then' and turned to preoccupy himself with whatever Hresvelgr was up to scratching around the sand.]
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[It was an odd sort of feeling, knowing that outside of the desert he would have immediately snapped into a bitter laugh, all I told you so and finally found something better, did you? Jealousy, bitterness, hatred, everything that came so easy to him proven right in an instant.]
[But that wasn't who he was in the desert. The best of Ardyn Lucis Caelum could never be selfish, not even in the slightest. If this was how things unfolded, fine. He'd expected it, was even relieved in part that sense and logic had finally won out.]
[So he just looked on for a moment in a distant and resigned sort of way, gave Gladio a tired smile that seemed to say 'oh, go on then' and turned to preoccupy himself with whatever Hresvelgr was up to scratching around the sand.]