Soon, Ash'Kral taught Levi the appropriate breathing technique to relieve a bit of the Ancestral Tree's exhaustion. It wasn't really to relieve it, but to match it and show that he was there for it… that he was there for it, to experience it together.
As Levi repeated the breathing technique, an overwhelming sense of exhaustion washed over him. It was so heavy he felt he could do nothing but grovel on the ground and remain motionless…
"What is this crushing weight? Is this what the Ancestral Tree feels each day?" Levi murmured with great difficulty.
"In your dreams, if this were its true burden, your heart would be crushed to death in an instant," Ash'Kral said calmly. "This is less than 1%."
The moment Levi heard that, the connection he'd worked so hard to maintain faltered at once.
"1%? All of this exhaustion is less than 1%?" Levi was shaken to his core.
