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Date: 2022-01-02 04:40 pm (UTC)
emet_sulk: (48 I will bring our brethren back)
From: [personal profile] emet_sulk
[ 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?!

[ Is that what truly happened that day? ]
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Date: 2022-01-09 03:57 pm (UTC)
emet_sulk: (05 then so can mine)
From: [personal profile] emet_sulk
[ He scowls more deeply. ]

I remember none of this. I travelled to Elpis on business for the Convocation and henceforth recall nothing until I came staggering out of the testing site with Hermes and Hythlodaeus. His damned construct wiped our memories, yes. He had a familiar called Meteion, yes. It all fits rather conveniently. Except for the fact that I am sure I would recall seeing someone as outlandish as one of you there.

[ It is difficult to believe that he could have forgotten something so vital. Or rather, it is difficult for him to accept that Hermes had willingly participated in thejr world's end. ]

I refuse to accept this... I refuse to believe one of our number would be so foolish--!!
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Date: 2022-01-16 08:51 am (UTC)
emet_sulk: (05 then so can mine)
From: [personal profile] emet_sulk
[ But is Jophrey really surprised when Hades, even back then, had refused to believe his tale? ]

Foolish man...

[ The Hermes he had known had been a gentle soul. Prone to melancholy but possessed of a deep empathy for all living things that had reflected in his care for Elpis. Ironically, that same empathy made him ill-suited to having direct control over the area. Hades had been relieved the man had accepted the offer to ascend. ]

I don't believe you. [ He shakes his head furiously, jaw set. ] The shards of him we raised have ever been prone to brooding, but he never desired to end the world. Granted, the memories we imparted would not have covered something we were never aware of...

[ His fists clench. ] Utterly preposterous.

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