Honestly, if the Astrals were watching over Prompto, they weren't doing a very good job, so he could understand the negative experience very well. If he hadn't seen the Astrals himself he might have doubted their influence.

"Oh yeah, well, it kind of still is?" Prompto said with an uneasy smile. "Although, the Empire for the moment, doesn't seem to be as active considering darkness fell and all that."

The starscourge was going to do damage to both sides. Lunafreya's loss was devastating for the world.

"But, um, we really want to fix it. To take Insomnia back and for Noct to come home so it's like...this is nice, but it's sort of in the way of our goals."