[candle call]

[immoetality]

[Then, C.C. fixed her candle by throwing it against a cliff wall.]







[. . . Carry on.]

Comments

[wildnight]

How could they?

[immoetality]

How sad for them—And you as well, I suppose.

[wildnight]

It is the way of the world. They could never be you.

[immoetality]

Yes, but that doesn't make it less disheartening. The question is what makes that fact worthwhile.

[wildnight]

Perhaps... It is not the fact I am most concerned with now.

[immoetality]

[shifting to lay down, half-curled around the candle]

No. You wouldn't be, would you?

[wildnight]

No...

We are winning again. We were not, for a time.

[immoetality]

They had to find their feet. How has everyone been?

[wildnight]

Oz is gone in your way. And Korra is in the book...

Did they tell you Dawn returned?

[immoetality]

Mm, I heard. We're still missing a few, though.

And you?

[wildnight]

I am still here.

[immoetality]

Are you? Though, you couldn't be anywhere else as much as you would like to be, could you.

[wildnight]

I would not wish to be elsewhere now, I just...

I weaken myself in this.

[immoetality]

Weaken? Or realizing your weakness?

[wildnight]

Weaken...

It is not in me to fight change, but I wish to. I am tired of losses.

[immoetality]

Shade, you can't stop.

[wildnight]

[huffs, and it might seem a bit petulant if it weren't for the ancient god of darkness and chaos and what have you

in fact, it might still sound petulant]

Can't I?

[immoetality]

Like you said, it's against your nature. You may not like it, but that fact makes you more human than you could know.

[wildnight]

I have known more loss than any human ever could.

[immoetality]

And it doesn't hurt any less each time, does it?

[wildnight]

No...

[pauses, then adds]

My son is dead. He's on Tiger's Eye still, but he has remembered dying.

[immoetality]

And he's here now.

[wildnight]

He killed himself.

[immoetality]

. . .

A victim of circumstance or himself?

[wildnight]

I don't know... He said there was no other way.

I think he refused to die like a mortal.