That basically summed it up, for Bakura. For as much as he had loathed its rulers, he had just as fiercely loved what Egypt was supposed to be. Had the massacre at Kul Elna not had happened, Akhenamkhanen's dynasty may actually have gained a powerful ally. Not, of course, that that was a path his mind wandered down. There was nothing to be gained by pondering a lifetime of what-if.
"Yes," he said simply instead, agreeing to Cain's assessment. "It was."
He'd often wondered what it would have been like, not to have been trapped inside the Ring for the intervening millennia. How much of the world he'd have seen change, and whether that would have changed the way he approached things when he finally did locate the Puzzle and the rest of the Items. But that, again, was a type of second guessing that was dangerous, especially to a person like him.
"Do people normally live that long, in your world?"
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That basically summed it up, for Bakura. For as much as he had loathed its rulers, he had just as fiercely loved what Egypt was supposed to be. Had the massacre at Kul Elna not had happened, Akhenamkhanen's dynasty may actually have gained a powerful ally. Not, of course, that that was a path his mind wandered down. There was nothing to be gained by pondering a lifetime of what-if.
"Yes," he said simply instead, agreeing to Cain's assessment. "It was."
He'd often wondered what it would have been like, not to have been trapped inside the Ring for the intervening millennia. How much of the world he'd have seen change, and whether that would have changed the way he approached things when he finally did locate the Puzzle and the rest of the Items. But that, again, was a type of second guessing that was dangerous, especially to a person like him.
"Do people normally live that long, in your world?"