[It means exactly what Ignis thinks it means. His home was destroyed, probably beyond saving. Despite how much it makes his fledgling heart ache. There's nothing he can do about it, and that's that. Especially when he's stuck here.]

You heard the legend, right? Of a world cursed by an endless cycle of life and death?

[He pauses, lowering his voice so that, over the winds and sound of the airship's engines, only this stranger would hear. He doubted any native would believe it, but...]

While the story here's not entirely accurate, I- was there when the cycle ended. So was the family I found there, in Crystallis.