With her finger touching the Yecine's lips, her Ogre Physique started to unravel her control of her hormones. The final words she meant to speak lost their hypnotic quality, replaced by the monotone of her true voice. Yet, it didn't engage the one listening any less than before - her pigeon blues staring downward, unblinking.
"But even in that death, they give birth to new wonders. The heavy elements and dense essence forged in their cores are scattered across the cosmos along with that light. These seed new worlds and bring new life. Even the violence of their passing can jumpstart the formation of young stars."
The magnificence of so much new progress - even through the eventual end of a lifetime of growth and effort - was displayed in supercuts of her observations of nearby galaxies. Each rebirth paralleled the path of cultivation itself… accumulation towards an ultimate end that leaves an effect on the universe, one way or another.
I wish I was clever enough to have intended their Elements to have such 'sentimental' connections from the start of the work.
Gravity and Gas~ I really just wanted Qat's whole kit to have a sort of center/pulling theme. And then El I wanted to have a wind controlling one of a 'higher quality'.
At least I was clever enough to realize the happy coincidence eventually! Maybe it is better that it happened around the wedding.
Maybe it would have been better to keep the concept of children further out in the story, too. Since it won't happen for 'forever'. Then again, I've been all Descent, Voidling, War, Invasion from the beginning and that is still not yet here!