I bear no hurt feelings if that is your concern. Each challenge was rightfully won. And I can not help but admire one who would try to protect those they love with such grace.
I imagine I would also be hard pressed if I were to challenge you. You always seemed one of conviction.
His greatest foolishness. No one can sustain such a life as noble and caring as it maybe. Bonding together is the more sustainable path.
Ah, but I do not mean to start a debate.
Well, I will continue to observe and apprise you of anything I learn. Even forced in this younger form, I'm sure I have many obstacles against me as his dislike for males is easily spotted.
[ the faintly teasing smile returning ] Men have very often proved foolish.
But no, you are right to fear that his endless charity is a double-edged blade. If this place will give me the chance to understand those things he has never told me—he tries to protect me as much as I him, you know— If there is such a chance, I will pursue it with my whole self.
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Aren't you usually my harbinger of bad luck?
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That sounds like a story.
[ Amaranth is here too, as young-looking as ever. There's a flowering branch with her where she once would have had a weapon. ]
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We simply seem to find ourselves on opposite sides. 'Tis more amusing than not. And each time she has been the victor.
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There is more credit in standing against one of her skill at all than there is shame to not prove the victor.
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I imagine I would also be hard pressed if I were to challenge you. You always seemed one of conviction.
I imagine you are close friends?
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[ a pause, to let that double answer process ]
But yes, more than a student, she is also a companion and one of my nearest true friends.
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And you know Persphone quite well, correct?
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He is my son.
I know him... [ voice soft and subtly wry ] ...as a mother does.
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1/2
I am grateful for your faith in the wisdom of mothers.
[ no wry twist to her words this time. if anything, she sounds almost sad.
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What I know most of all is how much I do not know.
It is Persephone's great kindness to offer solace to all, and accept it from none.
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Ah, but I do not mean to start a debate.
Well, I will continue to observe and apprise you of anything I learn. Even forced in this younger form, I'm sure I have many obstacles against me as his dislike for males is easily spotted.
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Men have very often proved foolish.
But no, you are right to fear that his endless charity is a double-edged blade.
If this place will give me the chance to understand those things he has never told me—he tries to protect me as much as I him, you know—
If there is such a chance, I will pursue it with my whole self.
[ #foreshadowing ]
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...anyway, this is Persephone's place, it must be, so hopefully all will go well.
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Flowers and poems and quiet and soft sunlight.
And sacrificing oneself for the greater good, correct?
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There is so much he keeps from others. At all times, but none more than when he withdraws into his sanctuaries.
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There's a lot he doesn't even share with me, really, I'm pretty sure.