[superhell pcs] thancred

[voidshift]

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[onlythans]

Spend enough time around Y'shtola, and the notion of tackling the impossible simply for the sake of proving it can be done becomes commonplace. I suppose I'm simply used to it.

[before they exiled us from our home for it, Ryn remarks offhandedly, and Thancred quietly files that painful revelation away for some other time.]

Then answer for me your own question, from before. How do you see it all playing out, should we both earn a second chance at life?

[voidshift]

[surprise! he's just packed full of fun new little traumas like that.]

I suppose... I'd return to mine, and to the rest of the ren'dorei. Hope that what happened to me when I died doesn't stick and I don't just come back as a pawn of the void lords. You'd return to yours and the people you care for, either find a way to treat your ailing heart or just live whatever life you have left.

And if we could still reach each other, in some way, I imagine we might still speak, up until we didn't. Until you were gone again. I'd give it a handful of years if you don't take care of what killed you, maybe less.

[onlythans]

...That's how narrow your estimate is? A handful of years, maybe less?

[He'll get back to the other stuff in a minute, but.]

[voidshift]

If it happened in your sleep, not with exertion? Yes.

[he's not mentioning the self sacrificial tendency, even.]