[Uri manages a smile, just a flicker on the lips. There's nothing joyous about it. He shakes his head at the kindly doctor.]

It seems there's much you still don't understand. I wonder how much that friend of yours does.

Were it not for the way I chose to handle that ability, that world that came to ruin might never have needed to. [Uri, as they all do, became a slave to the first king's ironclad ideology.

[Does he consider himself to have been powerless though? No. Not at all.]

As things go, there's no right answer to creating paradise, is there, Doctor Maruki?

If I may say something selfish, here only between us...

[His eyes meet Maruki's, and that flicker of a smile comes back into place, held this time.]

Outside the mind of that man, I am dead.

I'd simply like to rest a while now, if I'm so allowed. Until whatever dream we share has ended.