"Weakness breeds death?" He repeated the words a little puzzled but at the same time intrigued. It spoke to certain fusteration in his heart about his own people. His own people who needed him...and ignored his needs.

"If the state is an expression of the people, then I wonder what purpose I would play in such a world. I am high born, and I have always been taught that my duty is to those on my 'world'. My people are..."

He couldn't finish it, Seeu tried to consider those who he watched from the veil to be gentle...perhaps even ideal in their goodness because it made it easier to want to save them, to want to be out there with them.

Who was he really on the world of Asu? A minority with no way of changing that fact without the dolls? A prince whose rank mattered only because it allowed him to be kept in a cage? A boy who would one day wield power that would let him live forever...in an empty broken world?

"My people are relatively calm. If I am to be entirely for them at the moment then my goal should be the creation of dolls and the transfer of the soul immediately without haste. A child's life is hardly anything for the serving role of the prince to his people."


Seeu blinked. He didn't know the other's name. "I'm sorry, you are?"