[ He watches the old man pace, an almost uncharacteristic thoughtfulness turning the line of his mouth. Alternate timelines is a new one, he has to admit, but it's not as hard to accept as it could be.

As for the rest of it...well. One can't really hope to build something new without tearing down the old, can one?

He's not exactly sure how much the old man has been told about the future either so he'll err on the side of caution for now. ]

You'd be surprised, old man. A lot of worlds have fallen in the last ten years.

Radiant Garden was the first.

[ He says it like the fact it is, without much inflection. Whatever ties he might have had to his former home were severed years ago. ]

The Heartless have replaced the Unversed.