"I'd felt my life dragged out with the sword, but in the end my life wouldn't go. It had stretched between me and the sword. I think that only the power of the gods could have kept me alive, but my living was at the same time an offense to them. I should have died, but instead the pain went on and on. Dying would have been so much easier"
"I remember the queen coming to me one night to offer me Hamiathes's Gift, but I told her I preferred to die. I'd had enough of Hamiathes's Gift and its rumored powers to confer immortality. There is something horrible and frightening and, I'd discovered, very, very painful about being trapped in this life when it is time to move on. She nodded wordlessly to me, as if she already understood. It may have been a dream"
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Date: 2/26/09 10:25 pm (UTC)"I'd felt my life dragged out with the sword, but in the end my life wouldn't go. It had stretched between me and the sword. I think that only the power of the gods could have kept me alive, but my living was at the same time an offense to them. I should have died, but instead the pain went on and on. Dying would have been so much easier"
"I remember the queen coming to me one night to offer me Hamiathes's Gift, but I told her I preferred to die. I'd had enough of Hamiathes's Gift and its rumored powers to confer immortality. There is something horrible and frightening and, I'd discovered, very, very painful about being trapped in this life when it is time to move on. She nodded wordlessly to me, as if she already understood. It may have been a dream"