#i am just. so glad caleb did not have to leave the astral sea with tealeaf

[dent-de-leon]

"He fell right next to Caleb, right?" "Yeah, fairly close by."

Thinking again about how Molly/Lucien and Caleb both died side by side in the ruins of Cognoza. How they're still together in the very end, because of course they are, because Caleb was never leaving Aeor without Mollymauk. Even if it killed him--

“He might not be there, but we should try...This can be a conversation, or it can be a reunion.” 

“We were quite fond of our friend.” 

“But...I know that we are supposed to go where Molly is, otherwise we wouldn’t have seen the things we’ve seen. We wouldn’t be the Mighty Nein.”

“For those of us interested in trying to redeem our old friend, we certainly don’t have a method to do so--at the moment. The thin hope would be, that [there’s] something about where we’re going...” 

"What did we come all this way for...if not for this? Why did we go so far, and fight so hard..."

"Get him out of there--"

Thinking about just...the hundreds of lingering souls finally released after a thousand years, countless gleaming lights rising up from the carcass of Cognoza, all these souls drifting off into the Astral Sea. Caleb begging the Nein to bring Molly home. Veth agreeing, "Of course, I think he's still in there." But Fjord countering with, "You don't think he's one of those golden motes of light that's being released?" Already gone?

If Molly and Caleb were never resurrected....would they have been together still, among all those shining souls illuminating endless night, binary stars bound together, forever in the infinite Astral Sea--