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leareth, king of cheliax, searches for his alt in a velgarth 1000 years earlier
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Ayodele rushes ahead. "Can I wake him, is that all right -?"

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"It should be!"

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She sits down on the side of his bed. "Kun, hey. It's me."

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The Healer backed off as soon as they appeared, and Tadesse wakes almost instantly, sitting up, eyes pausing for a fraction of a second on the familiar comforting face before cataloguing the rest of the room. 

"You are all safe?" he says. 

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"Yes, we're fine." She takes his hand. "- I'm talking to Tadesse right now, aren't I. They - Leareth told us, when we were taking his spirit-world-ship back." 

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"The Void-ship," Ma'ar corrects from the corner. "The spirit world is something different." 

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"Oh, huh." She blinks, then smiles and waves a little at Ma'ar. 

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"That is Kiyamvir Ma'ar. He is - also the same person as Leareth and - me - but much younger, from - the very beginning. Ma'ar, this is my sister– well, Ekunde's sister. Ayodele." 

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"Nice to meet you." 

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"Hi." She turns back to Tadesse. "Hey, can't I be your sister too." 

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Ekunde takes over. "Missed you, Dele. You got to fly through the Void? Cool." 

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"It was pretty cool! And Leareth and his friend Vanyel are nice." 

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Yewande watches her children from the doorway, her eyes simultaneously grateful and relieved and worried. 

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Leareth watches as well. 

:Something does feel off: he agrees to Carissa. 

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She watches them. :Did something happen shortly before this life?:

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:I think it is not very long before this that I gave up on many previous approaches and went back to the drawing board. I had admitted that the gods were my enemies, that talking to Them had proved ineffective, and that I could not fix things without - taking the war to Them first. I checked back in my records, and it must have been not very long before this - fifty years, perhaps less - that I first considered the plan for building a god. And - estimated the cost in lives. I imagine I was not very happy about it:

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:But if that's the problem - he has new options now, why still be...:

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:I am not sure: 

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:Do you remember ever sharing after this?:

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:Not specifically, but I have not reviewed all my lifetimes of notes since this point. I think that well before this point, I had already settled on a policy of not attempting to share unless there were exceptional reasons to think it might work - if it happened to be with someone who was very similar to me and actively wanted to help... I had tried it earlier on, but sharing with people who had very different values was - bad for me: 

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:In the sense it was unpleasant to be sharing with them, and made you less effective? Or...:

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:It - took more effort to stay myself over time? I could still do it, overall, I do not think I actually - lost anything of myself - from trying this, but I needed to spend more time working on that, and...well, it was disconcerting even taking the risk: 

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Nod. :He seems sort of unlike himself. Hopefully just in a temporary way.:

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:Hopefully:

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