He leaned in slightly.
"Tell me this," Alameck said softly. "If humans truly possess the limitless heart you believe in, do you think fear will destroy that potential?"
A pause.
"Or force it to reveal itself?"
The question hung between them, sharp and merciless.
Yu'Keto did not answer at once.
The question lingered, gnawing at him, not because it was unfamiliar, but because it had followed him for centuries in quieter forms. He turned slightly, boots scraping against obsidian stone, eyes narrowing as he stared into the abyss once more.
"I have seen fear do both," he said at last. "I have watched it shatter minds beyond repair. I have watched it turn children into monsters before they ever understood what they were becoming."
Alameck listened, unblinking.
"And I have also seen it forge legends," Yu'Keto continued. "I have seen mortals rise under impossible pressure and become something greater than the sum of their suffering."
He exhaled.
"That is the problem."
