[ A brief instant in the face of eternity; that, perhaps, speaks as a hint to Robin's potentially long and ancient age. Some might consider it an exaggeration of certain feelings and events, mayhaps, though he knows from the way that the man speaks he certainly isn't someone who would mean to do much of that. Not when he is speaking so severely on a personal matter.

Such as it is, when Robin also speaks of Chrom's humanity, it does certainly seem potentially insulting on the surface of it. But, he already thinks otherwise, given the fact Robin has already showed in more than one way how much he valued the presence of this man, and what he meant to him. So, now it sounds more akin to a hint of his own lingering feelings on his mortality. What it means to exist as a human who may easily find himself easily in the throes of death; though he wonders if Chrom ever fell easily.

So, indeed, perhaps it sounds more like an echoing of longing; of mourning. ]

Human in the way that all humans are, but...perhaps in how mortality is something that is usually swiftly upon them, yes?

[ Jing Yuan questions, no less serious than before, contemplative gaze writ upon his face.

He easily thinks of Baiheng who too had passed away; though she was certainly less human, but still quite very mortal. ]