the bitter harvest of a dying bloom

What is there to be gleaned from a dying Titan? The Aegises, of course, can, for all intents and purposes, fly; if he must, he'll salvage for them later, but it most likely won't be necessary. Their Drivers, thus, he must hope survive.

Merely hope. It would be...difficult to intercede.

The High Prince, however? There, a man intimately concerned with his own security and legacy, who will make it out alive if it kills him, so to speak.

Such abject, high-minded desperation shrouding cunning readiness to loyalty...that, Amalthus can harness.

From a dying land, what else more beautiful?