New Moon Event - I am Blessed, Blessed to Burn

[forever_witch]

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[Seresian]

[fluorite_flux]

[He cannot empathize directly, not having felt the pain of death so many times, but he can relate, as a fellow outcast.]

I understand better ... why two years would be nothing ...

Re: [Seresian]

[forever_witch]

What are you saying?
[wearily lifts head, drenched in sweat]

[Seresian--->Modified, heavily accented "Nihongo"]

[fluorite_flux]

Ah, I hope I did not startle you ... these Dreamberries really aren't working right now, are they.

[He tries the only other language he's learned a little of on the off-chance she might understand, even though he can barely speak it.]

Do you understand this word? ("Kono kotoba wakaru ka?")

Re: [Seresian--->Modified, heavily accented "Nihongo"]

[forever_witch]

Of course. I know most of the world's languages.

[Norse]

[ragnalol]

...you don't look like a witch to me.

[forever_witch]

...I see.
[she's Immortal, she can speak this language since well, she has been around]

[ragnalol]

That's not very fair to you.

[forever_witch]

Few things in life are.

[English]

[demonichymn]

...I wonder if Mother ever went through this.

Re: [English]

[forever_witch]

[she turns away, shivering]

See? I have good experience.

[Sindarin]

[lindale_tano]

Burned at the stake? The things humans do...

That is...a terrible death.

Re: [Sindarin]

[forever_witch]

[meets stare with blank golden eyes]

What language is that?
If it's pity, I don't need it.

[Sindarin]

[lindale_tano]

[He didn't understand a word she said. Which is...peculiar, since he has had no difficulty understanding her before.

Have a blank stare.]

I...do not understand. What language are you speaking?

Re: [Sindarin]

[forever_witch]

[stares at him with a raised eyebrow]

[Japanese]

[insorrow]

[That all really happened, didn't it? Tactless though he can be, some questions even Ken knows better than to ask. The pain is only familiar but he nearly screamed all the same. He can't go through that again, he just can't--

[Burning once was bad enough: he can't imagine what this must have been like. He can't even begin to.]

God. Oh, Jesus. Are you okay?

[Japanese]

[forever_witch]

[the witch stared at him with weary eyes, panting, shivering, why was it so cold...?Her teeth were chattering. Of course he couldn't. Burning at the stake more than once, dying over and over]

Y-Yes.

[Japanese]

[insorrow]

[The little he comprehends of what she's been through is enough to leave Ken horrified.]

I-if you're sure. That was--

[He doesn't know what to say it was, so he just smiles weakly.]

I... kinda don't like fire much myself. I just wanted to check.

Re: [Japanese]

[forever_witch]

[she smiles thinly, a bitter curve to her pretty face]
..Horrible? Which part?
I hated that way the most. It was slow.