Babylon Sisters

In another universe, the Aegis was an antithetical marvel who traveled without a care toward anything humanity did, except that he scorned it. He was impossibly tall, shoulders broad, and shattered smiles to bitter pieces with every commanding bootstep. He was no loving scion. He didn't seem holy at all, except that he was unequivocally divine.

In this one, the Aegis loved humanity too much, loved to commune with them, and couldn't contrive any other solution to solve their suffering than to completely absent himself.

He would have done it, would have tried it, already many times over. He would have been as gone as a big-britched madman could be.

But because Addam and Flora were part of that noble creation of the Architect's, Minoth wondered if he might not try; if he might not see the silver lip of the cloud just inching aside, and reach for it. He might preserve, foremost, that highly-ordained love threaded throughout his programming.

Make no mistake, the Aegis Minoth was not sweet-voiced and soft-bearded as he broke bread with the mercenaries of Uraya and the workmen of Mor Ardain. He did not tread on water when he walked through the streets of Auresco, observing the treatment of people among people and science vis-à-vis art. He was a little odd, a little off-putting, a little offbeat.

People appreciated him for his forthrightness when he did speak, however. He wished to lay bare the hypocrisy and the wisdom alike present in Amalthus's words. He wished to test the heft of humanity's history with his own eyes and ears.

He wished not to be escorted by a bright-eyed and shock-haired prince with a mild and unassuming wife as his vouch, but instead to be enjoying of a lord and a lady in private conference, eternally warm-hearted.