Estinien had said the same to others on the way here. It couldn't possibly be so simple, so quiet, so sudden. Surely, if their world had ended, it would be fire and conflict, rather than snuffed out with hardly a whimper. After so much pain and struggle, to have it taken from them so trivially...

He doesn't want to get emotional in front of this boy, and so he avoids debating the topic of their homes for the time being. It's too hard not to dwell, as beaten down and humiliated as he is right now.

"...Aye," he says, after a moment. He almost didn't notice it at first, with so much else on his mind, but it's there, buried in his sternum. His bound hands shift in their bonds, and he realizes that he has no real way of showing Yuya. There's little point to it, anyway. "Energy... souls... they can be manifest in crystal, where I come from. That cave was no natural formation."