As the Tarnished speaks, Ranni lays her hands in her lap, folded neatly, and listens. Within a sentence or two it becomes clear that Anastasia seems to be mostly just thinking out loud, running everything through her thoughts out of a need to process what's happened so far.
Her anger is... endearing.
Ranni feels, most days, that she has passed beyond her own anger. She had been full of anger, in the early days, back when she was still in her own body. Oh, how she had raged at the Two Fingers and the Golden Order, the unfairness of it all, constantly swallowing down disgust at her own Empyrean flesh. Her brothers had scoffed at her and acted like she'd ben a child throwing a tantrum. Her mother had just tried to soothe her. And yet, her anger had only grown. She had found a freedom in casting aside her flesh, and over the centuries, her rage has cooled into a chill resolve.
Watching Anastasia feels, for a moment, like watching a part of her younger self.
The death of Godrick would help Ranni's mission -- as a Shardbearer, he holds a piece of what she wants to reforge and take far, far away -- but it would also help the people here. People like the poor young woman Anastasia had met, and the cowering thralls in his castle, and the Tarnished he would hunt in the future.
"You possess a strong sense of morality, to fight for the people of a land you know little about," Ranni says thoughtfully. It's a good sign in a potential Elden Lord. "What is it that you see in these lands, that you would fight for them?"
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Her anger is... endearing.
Ranni feels, most days, that she has passed beyond her own anger. She had been full of anger, in the early days, back when she was still in her own body. Oh, how she had raged at the Two Fingers and the Golden Order, the unfairness of it all, constantly swallowing down disgust at her own Empyrean flesh. Her brothers had scoffed at her and acted like she'd ben a child throwing a tantrum. Her mother had just tried to soothe her. And yet, her anger had only grown. She had found a freedom in casting aside her flesh, and over the centuries, her rage has cooled into a chill resolve.
Watching Anastasia feels, for a moment, like watching a part of her younger self.
The death of Godrick would help Ranni's mission -- as a Shardbearer, he holds a piece of what she wants to reforge and take far, far away -- but it would also help the people here. People like the poor young woman Anastasia had met, and the cowering thralls in his castle, and the Tarnished he would hunt in the future.
"You possess a strong sense of morality, to fight for the people of a land you know little about," Ranni says thoughtfully. It's a good sign in a potential Elden Lord. "What is it that you see in these lands, that you would fight for them?"