[ There is a gap in his memories. He has brushed it aside for so long, thinking it to be nothing. What were the loss of a few days to an endless life after all? It hadn't seemed important then. But now...now Jophrey's words itch.
He still can't remember. He doubts he will until the aetherial sea rinses his soul clean, as his people once theorised. It is preposterous though. Impossible. Even with the knowledge of how the Exarch's time-travel was made possible, the amount of aether needed would be obscene, with no guarantee that the traveller would be tangible at the end of it.
He sits there on the tiled floor, slumped over, hand gripping his wrist tightly. ]
You cannot possibly know those names. Meteion's accidental destruction left Hermes in a fugue for moons, even after he accepted his tenure. How...? How?!
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Date: 2022-01-02 04:40 pm (UTC)He still can't remember. He doubts he will until the aetherial sea rinses his soul clean, as his people once theorised. It is preposterous though. Impossible. Even with the knowledge of how the Exarch's time-travel was made possible, the amount of aether needed would be obscene, with no guarantee that the traveller would be tangible at the end of it.
He sits there on the tiled floor, slumped over, hand gripping his wrist tightly. ]
You cannot possibly know those names. Meteion's accidental destruction left Hermes in a fugue for moons, even after he accepted his tenure. How...? How?!
[ Is that what truly happened that day? ]