Arrow Lake Show no fear, for she may fade away.

She pressed on and let him speak, hopeful that he might find some comfort in openly recalling his fallen comrade - regardless of how awkward it made her feel.

Nyx lifted her yellow eyes, turned her face toward him when he said something that took her by surprise. A frown tugged at her features, pulling each corner of her mouth downward. "At the end, all we really have is who we are," she shared, rolling a peppered shoulder in a shrug. It had been a harsh lesson for her to learn, when fate ejected her from Grimnismal's ranks, for a time leaving her entirely alone.

His question was something she hadn't anticipated, though she appreciated his consideration for her. "I hope only to survive," Nyx told Mahler honestly, unable to admit that her life's purpose could ever compare to the grandiosity of what Stigmata had yearned to achieve in his. After what she had done, surviving was a luxury.