Hythlodaeus swallows, feeling a heavy weight settle on his chest. Is... this how Hades had felt when Hythlodaeus had said goodbye, all those thousands of years ago? Oh, how he wishes he could do more now. How helpless he feels. This feels like some strange goodbye in itself, but he'd been so sure this was only a dream...

Handing over the crystal, he lowers his gaze. "The world loses more with your sacrifice than it ever could with mine, my friend." If this is a dream, he wants it to end. He wants to wake up beside Emet-Selch in the lifestream once more, and chuckle to himself at how silly he had been to imagine up such a scenario.