ninth † audio; english

[shut_up_near]

All right, Discedo, I'm formulating a theory so it's poll time - how many of you were dead before you ended up here?

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[guardianofman]

I was....

[shut_up_near]

And you are?

[guardianofman]

My name is Lute.

[shut_up_near]

Lute. [committing this to memory] How much do you remember about it?

[guardianofman]

I remember it all quite clearly.

[shut_up_near]

Do elaborate.

[guardianofman]

On how I died?

[shut_up_near]

Sure, why not. It's for science.

[guardianofman]

Well, I guess I could describe it, I'm not sure how much of it will make sense, not knowing how my world works.

Well, I suppose the simplest way to say it is... in the end, my life energy was used up. In order to heal and save the ones I love most from death and torture, I used the last of my life energy to heal them. This caused my body to crumble away. Though, I would have said I had died years before that, that was just the end.

[shut_up_near]

Back up a bit - you died years before you died? How did that work?

[guardianofman]

My soul was taken from me and my blood drained.

[shut_up_near]

... Yeah, that sounds pretty much like "dead," all right. This sort of thing pretty ordinary where you're from?

[guardianofman]

It's not common.

[shut_up_near]

But there've been other instances?

[guardianofman]

It's a known procedure, I don't know anyone else they did it too though... ah, no.... After me, someone else did it, but in a slightly different way.

[shut_up_near]

... Go on.