[That, if anything, makes Estinien even more suspicious of Aymeric's motives in bringing it up.
If he were content with the tale they had told the dragonet, surely he would have forgotten all about it, save for some embarrassment that it had occurred at all. He wouldn't have been fretting about it this much, certainly not to the point of asking G'rhyf about it. Would he?
No, there would be no reason to.
So the answer is...he wishes it were truth (or as close to it as two Elezen men could get, at any rate.) Aymeric was only ever this evasive when it came to something he truly wished for.
The thought sends a jolt of misgiving through him--not because he doesn't care for Aymeric, deeply, but because why him. Aymeric deserved the world, the best of everything--and that surely wasn't him. There was no more rage in him, to be fair, but he was still piecing together who and what he was meant to be without it. The piece that held Aymeric was dear and would stay with him always, but...what if the rest didn't hold a shape that he could care for in that way? And, Fury, that wasn't even considering the likelihood of him buggering it up, which was high.]
...you wouldn't work yourself into such a state if you were content with what we told him.
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If he were content with the tale they had told the dragonet, surely he would have forgotten all about it, save for some embarrassment that it had occurred at all. He wouldn't have been fretting about it this much, certainly not to the point of asking G'rhyf about it. Would he?
No, there would be no reason to.
So the answer is...he wishes it were truth (or as close to it as two Elezen men could get, at any rate.) Aymeric was only ever this evasive when it came to something he truly wished for.
The thought sends a jolt of misgiving through him--not because he doesn't care for Aymeric, deeply, but because why him. Aymeric deserved the world, the best of everything--and that surely wasn't him. There was no more rage in him, to be fair, but he was still piecing together who and what he was meant to be without it. The piece that held Aymeric was dear and would stay with him always, but...what if the rest didn't hold a shape that he could care for in that way? And, Fury, that wasn't even considering the likelihood of him buggering it up, which was high.]
...you wouldn't work yourself into such a state if you were content with what we told him.