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[wylderrant]

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[thejoyrider]

Ah, I see... It was a bit similar for me. I was an existence called a Heroic Spirit and as one, I also did not age. However, I have been human before, so arriving in Aefenglom did not bring anything unknown for me in that matter...

[Marie thinks for a while]

How old are you, Iramaat?

[Right to the point]

[wylderrant]

Oh, that sounds fascinating. How were you - ah - elevated-?

[ Well, she was going to ask that. Marie's rather blunt question shoots right through everything else and Iramaat blinks for a long moment. ]

Well- [ She frowns and tries to count back. ]

...a few centuries, I should think. I don't really keep track.

[thejoyrider]

[To be honest, Marie also does not exactly look like her human age]

I lived my life as a human until I met my end. However, since the memory of me remained strongly with the society, it became possible to summon me as a type of familiar.

[She’s giving the short version of the story. Workings of the Grail and the Throne of Heroes were quite complicated after all and possibly a topic for another conversation]

How are you taking it, Iramaat? Being made... mortal, I mean.

[wylderrant]

Oh, it's... alright, I suppose.

[ Which isn't the whole truth, honestly. ]

I'm not sure I much like it. [ Iramaat frowns. ]

Living every day with the knowledge that you could just die any moment. It's awful.

[thejoyrider]

[Yeah, that sounds about as Marie imagined it might have felt to her]

I understand. But wouldn’t that mean that you should live every moment to the fullest? So you would not regret it later...

[wylderrant]

Regret. I try not to regret, but that's just as new...

[ Iramaat frowns. ]

Mortals are strange, aren't they? Although you used to be one, so I suppose this all old hat to you.

[thejoyrider]

If I am to be completely honest, I am a bit worried. Anything can happen and I won’t be able to just be summoned again.

[She makes a small pause]

And yet, I cannot help but be excited about the return to mortal form.

[wylderrant]

There is a bit of a thrill, isn't there? The idea that anything might happen...

[ She rests her chin in her hand with a little frown. ]

But worrying about death - I don't like that. Don't like that at all.

[thejoyrider]

I suppose so... I have died before, like I told you. It... was not a good experience.

[And a rather painful one in more than one way, so her expression turns a bit more serious]

[wylderrant]

Exactly. It sounds... horrible. And I'd rather avoid oblivion as long as I can. But now I live every day knowing that it's getting closer.

Awful.

[ She frowns. ]

[thejoyrider]

It’s... not like this, you know? As long as others remember you, you stay alive in their hearts.

[And in the case of Marie, a Heroic Spirit, this is very much literal]

[wylderrant]

Is that life, though...?

[ Iramaat frowns. ]

I suppose it will have to do. Nothing else for it.