[Blue doesn't answer right away, still trying to reconcile with the guilt he now feels for having laid out that truth to these two women. neither of them should be responsible for it, and knowing it...changes nothing. it just adds a futile reality that they didn't need to have.
upon I'll just be here, his eyes lift and fix on hers. he feels guilty, too, for having to conceal things, but...what could she do in knowing? she already seems a bit lost.]
I will tell you what I know I can. I know that...there is no record of Mu dying a natural death as of yet; I may become the first.
I've been alive...more than three hundred years. And for the last fifteen of them, I was asleep. I had burnt myself out, using my power. And in waking...I had to do it again.
Were I not to have been brought here, I would be dead already.
It's why I can hardly walk. Move on my own. Why I tire so quickly for so long... [his mouth tugs a bit.] All things wear out and break down, after all.
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upon I'll just be here, his eyes lift and fix on hers. he feels guilty, too, for having to conceal things, but...what could she do in knowing? she already seems a bit lost.]
I will tell you what I know I can. I know that...there is no record of Mu dying a natural death as of yet; I may become the first.
I've been alive...more than three hundred years. And for the last fifteen of them, I was asleep. I had burnt myself out, using my power. And in waking...I had to do it again.
Were I not to have been brought here, I would be dead already.
It's why I can hardly walk. Move on my own. Why I tire so quickly for so long... [his mouth tugs a bit.] All things wear out and break down, after all.