[candle call]

[immoetality]

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







[. . . Carry on.]

Comments

[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.

[immoetality]

Will that history repeat itself?

[wildnight]

I can't say...

Given the choice, most likely.

[immoetality]

If the choice must be made. Mm, even for you, second chances must be rare, though.

[wildnight]

A second chance at what, though.

[immoetality]

Having him. —More time.

[wildnight]

More time to be hurt again, too.

[immoetality]

That is your choice.

[wildnight]

Not a choice I asked for.

[immoetality]

That doesn't mean you can deny that it is there.

[wildnight]

I can't deny it, no...

[immoetality]

So, something must be done with it. If you're going to be at all reasonable.

[wildnight]

I don't want to be reasonable. I want my children back.

[immoetality]

Then, get them back.

[wildnight]

I can't.

[just... so many memories of killing her kids recently]

[immoetality]

You can't? You of all people? It sounds like you're the person in your own way, not anyone else.

[wildnight]

Death is in my way.

[except... you know... with Sieh. and you and Oz]

[immoetality]

And death is completely binding here.

[wildnight]

...Only one of them is here.