dawnblushed | [redactable] catchall for chiron

My last view of the stars was --

[A pause]

Unique.

But even still, I am intrigued to know that humans have created a system allowing them to explore the stars in this way.

Unique? How so?

[laughs in mythology]

...it's amazing, isn't it? We don't have anything like this where I come from, but if this is what people can make... maybe someday we will. I want to learn enough about it to bring the knowledge of it back to my homeland.

[Opens his mouth

... closes it]

Ah. Perhaps that will be a tale for another time. I do not know if you'd believe if me if I told you.

[he sounds more amused than anything, though!]

I hope that you are able to, one day. I believe it is human nature to challenge the limits of their worlds, and ascend beyond them. It is what makes you all so unique.

I'd believe more than you might think... but sure, we can save it for later.

[It'll be something they can talk about for a memshare lite, later!]

People are pretty great that way, aren't they? It's really wonderful to see.

Indeed. It sounds as if you have experience in this regard as well.

[Yona, do you have great people watching skills?]

I've grown a lot, but as I've traveled, I've seen other people grow a lot, too. It's inspiring.

You do not travel alone, do you?

[She shakes her head.]

No. I've been lucky enough to have found people who will travel with me.

-- Ah, yes. When we first met, you did mention someone often kept you focused on your own wounds when necessary.

Mmhm. Yoon.

...you'd like him a lot, I think! He wants to learn everything, and he excels at everything he tries.

Does he now? A shame I will not get the chance to meet him. He sounds like the type of student I would enjoy.

I think you'd really get along with him.

[Also, Yoon would love Chiron? Like. So much.]

I'll learn as much as I can so I can pass on your teachings to him, when I go home.

[Provided she doesn't forget them lmao.]

[Chiron would point to Yoon immediately and go "that's my son" so this is valid]

By all means. It would be an honor to know my knowledge will continue on even after I pass.

...hold on, "after you pass"?

[DON'T TELL HER YOU'RE DEAD IN CANON TOO, HORSE DAD. She looks genuinely distressed by this.]

[

Damn it.]

Do not worry, Yona. I meant nothing by it.

-- Truly, it is no concern.

[STOP]

You're important to me, so I'm concerned.

[So there!]

[Yona don't just kill him outright like this. He makes a soft noise of surprise and then lowers his head as if in apology]

... Forgive me. I did not mean to undermine your concern for me.

[...]

But I am -- [mmmMMM] For all intents and purposes, I am no longer alive, Yona.

[Her shoulders droop at that.]

...the Realm brought a lot of people here who are already dead, didn't it...

... I think so, yes.

[Smiling as if in apology]

Not to make light of our lives, but to bring the dead in service of the living is not a new concept. Some would argue it is better that way -- to lose us would not harm the living, after all.

Yes, it would.

[She crosses her arms.]

Even if you were dead before, you're alive now, aren't you? You're breathing, and your heart is beating, and you're able to talk with people. You count as "the living".

...and even if you don't think you do, losing you now would hurt the people who are left behind.

[Mm... smiling sadly at that.]

I know.

[He won't deny the truth of her words]

But regardless, we will be returning to death. I do not plan to live longer than what the Realm requires of me.

...

[Well that's. Depressing. Wow.]

...I'm glad to have had the chance to meet you, regardless.

[Gotta get my hits in before you try to yeet yourself into the GY before I get there.

Though even with those words and the heavy atmosphere, Chiron still chooses to smile]

The same for me as well. Teachers are often remembered through the works of their students.

[...]

If I can impart even a little bit of wisdom to you all, I will leave this world satisfied.

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