After all, she heard you out. She chose not to simply unmake you where you knelt before her cosmic grandeur. And while the future remains shrouded in unfathomable mysteries, that briefest audience seemed to crack her eternal veneer of dispassionate animosity, if only for a few heartbeats. Call it foolish, but that tiny spark of… something kindles the smallest ember of hope that not all is lost between you after this bitter millennium of partings.