A world without a Pillar! This wonderfully bittersweet news was as exciting as it was envious. How he wished Cephiro had been able to survive without the sacrifice of the Pillar. Zagato became so deeply lost in thought over this that he went silent on his host of encyclopedic knowledge about Nautilus for several minutes, well long enough for a certain awkwardness to arise between them.

He hardly seemed bothered by it though, she had just given him a great deal to think about.