[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 will, until it does not. In time your reasons will mean less, and you will seek out others again.

[circumsutus]

My reasons have mattered for this long, they'll matter for a few more months.

[absentconstellation]

Until we all perish as the town itself rises up to devour us?

[circumsutus]

I'm dead here or at home. It shouldn't matter to me.

[absentconstellation]

It shouldn't, but I don't doubt it does.

[circumsutus]

[A few moments, and then...]

Enough about me. What are you afraid of?

[absentconstellation]

Very little.

[ He says that, but he can't help going on. ]

I fear that I cannot help you escape this place. I fear that I shall die here, and never meet another hero. The Mortal Realms will have to go on without me.

[circumsutus]

Would that be so bad? [Of course it would be. Mortal races have never been able to manage themselves without input from the gods, and everything Stein has seen of this cat suggests that the creature is what he would consider a god.]

[absentconstellation]

It would be bad for me. Mortals will always find their way, given time.

[circumsutus]

I doubt that. Humanity has never been able to properly govern itself without input from the gods.

[absentconstellation]

I am not a god. And it has been my experience that they create as many problems as they solve.

[ He doesn't think terribly highly of gods. ]

[circumsutus]

In the history of my world, mortals have never been able to find their way.

[absentconstellation]

Have they ever been given the chance?

[circumsutus]

In limited capacity. Humans have an incredible tendency for hatred and self-destruction.

[absentconstellation]

Indeed they do. But the interference of gods has done very little to change that.

[circumsutus]

It's changed my world for the better.

[absentconstellation]

Then surely your gods are far wiser than mine.

[circumsutus]

They must be. [He says, a little too insistent.] He has to be.

[absentconstellation]

In my experience, the gods have no interest in improving the world for mortals.

[circumsutus]

They have to live in the world as well.

[absentconstellation]

Perhaps. But they will live long enough that human wars pass in the blink of an eye, and individual lives are so short as to be meaningless.