Taako, if this is all a game? ... And even if it isn't. The point is to beat them. To stand against-- whatever it is: the gods, the Null, the monsters from the coliseum, and to win. [ She doesn't get closer, doesn't grip him by the shoulders, but her eyes are blazing, her voice emphatic. ] They have incredible power, but so do the lot of us. We can resist them and fight and stand together, because even if all that is to them is a nuisance, then we are taking some kind of damned meaningful action. Whatever it is that we can do here, we do it, and that is where our power lies.

[ No matter what hell they're put through in Hadriel, they've dug themselves out again. Sometimes literally. Cecily knows now that the face and name of their enemy doesn't matter, and that the only truth to hold on to for dear life is that they are all here together. ]

If you can put your trust into one thing today, Taako, please. Believe me.