The rules of this paper 'counseling' technique, by which he had been compelled by the cognitive mages to write upon, had pried out something Somnus would have spoken to no one. Uniquely, though, Ardyn is one person who can relate to being eternally damned until fate grants them otherwise-- rather, until they fulfill that fate.

Somnus watches Ardyn as he loops around him, his posture stiff, his eyes narrowed upon his sibling until he can no longer follow his form. Then he turns to continue to watch him, and at length, he speaks one word, low and defensive.

"Existence." A beat. "Exhausting."

Revealing what he's written puts him at a slightly more vulnerable state, but it a piece moved upon the chess board, a tactic dedicated to finishing this 'worrygami' affair. Somnus is nothing if not pragmatic; moreover, if he wrote this, then Ardyn must have written the same.