[network] Event: Long & Lost [NIGHT 217]

[snowblindmods]

it's been so long between the words we spoke
will you be there up on the shore, I hope

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[absentconstellation]

It is a role I have chosen for myself. [ He looks away, into the distance, like he can see the past laid out behind him. And he can, in his mind - an endless line of people he has loved. ]

Any immortal who chooses to live among mortals must accept such a fate.

[grimalkid]

An immortal, really? I guess that makes sense, if you're a star-cat like that guy said. You're much more approachable than some of the gods I've seen, though.

[absentconstellation]

I am not a god. I am a constellation.

[ He has obviously said this exact thing many, many times. ]

[grimalkid]

Oh, that makes more sense with the star thing. So is the whole star sign thing actually true?

[absentconstellation]

Which thing might that be?

Man was the zodiac even a thing in the 1960s

[grimalkid]

The thing that humans do where they say they match up to some constellation based on when they were born and tell their fortunes based on it. Although I haven't heard any of them talking about being matched to a cat, so obviously it's not as good as it could be.

Who knows? Not I

[absentconstellation]

For fortune telling mortals usually keep to constellations that can be counted upon to be in the sky.

I spend most of my time in the mortal realms.

[grimalkid]

Wow, so you just leave a blank spot in the sky? I bet some old star-watching guy freaked out the first time you did it.

[absentconstellation]

Someone rediscovers the phenomenon every few decades. Most discount it as the changing of the seasons.

Humans are quite skilled at ignoring what they believe to be impossible.

[grimalkid]

Hehe, that's true. Which makes it all the more fun to confront them with evidence until they break.

[absentconstellation]

Until they break?

[ He know what the Boy means, but there's an edge of disapproval in his voice. He would like you to try and justify that statement. ]

[grimalkid]

[Oh man, cat disapproval. He does not want that.] I mean, until they finally admit the supernatural's real, you know. It's safer for them to know that anyways.

[absentconstellation]

[ Good save. ]

Perhaps it is. Many may go all their lives without ever knowing what mysteries remain.

[grimalkid]

Or getting the wrong answer.

[absentconstellation]

Indeed. They do quite a bit of that.