He shakes his head. "It wasn't just love," he says, but he doesn't seem like he wants to get into it more. It's deeply personal, of course, and while it's clear Harry is something of an open book, there's such thing as being too open.

Besides, it's obvious he's more than willing to discuss Pale. "Pale is the absence of matter. It's absolute nothingness, but also a physical manifestation of the past. It's also the largest structure on Elysium, and getting bigger. It surrounds the seven isolas— continents of matter. You need an airship to travel through it, because the further into it you go, the more reality breaks down." Though he uses the term 'airship', it's probably obvious it's not the same as the ones Emet-Selch would be familiar with. "Sound goes first, then forward momentum. Eventually even things like language stop working. The final barrier is numbers. That one won't ever be broken. A long time ago, people used to go insane crossing it, if they came back at all. They'd end up with each other's memories, or having lost all sense of time."

Despite how dire it sounds, it's clear this is something he's been fascinated by for a very long time. "There's a baby Pale inside of a church near where I woke up. I'd been there before, it's how I knew it was there in the first place. Though I wouldn't really recommend using it the way I did, or using it at all. It's changed the way I think."

Definitely an ominous thing to say.