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I know what I want. I could spend the rest of my life chasing the ghosts of my past. The mysteries of what has happened to me. But I have a real life, here. Now. With these people.
I am not going to let go of that.
“No.”
And something changes.

Vis' Res and obiteum are soo gonna fuck up this perfect life he's having in Luceum

“So this is … one of the other worlds.” It seems obvious that’s what he’s saying, but I need to hear it.

Yeah being in Luceum is easier to navigate than getting him to obiteum but srsly who the fuck is this guy? And is he synchronis too?? Why can't HE defeat Ka then??

A small strip of white cloth, and a robe of linen so sheer and light it is almost invisible. “What’s this?” “What the dancers wear. Netiqret got it. Better to become accustomed to it now than later.” I examine the attire in silence. Hold up the strip of white. “This is for?” “Your hips.” I let it dangle, indicating its length. “It is not meant to be modest.”

Can't believe he's actually doing this 😂

“Perhaps there’s an easier dance I can try?”
“You know, there is,” Ahmose says. “It is normally performed by women, but occasionally men do it as well. It would make you very popular.” He starts to demonstrate, moving his body suggestively and then abruptly shaking his belly at me.

The way I'm picturing Vis it will be soo laughable to see him dance like that

When I finish, Conor shifts. Comes to sit beside me and puts an arm around my shoulder. “You are here now,” he says softly. “We are all with you, brother.” Seanna smiles. Tara and Fearghus nod. And I know I am home.


Damnnnn well it took him getting to a whole new world to finally find home

And yet impossible to mistake. Even as I stand there, breath short and disbelieving, I cannot help but know it.
He reminded me exactly of my father.

Oh my god!!! Did his father try Synchronism??? 😱

Callidus, Eidhin, Aequa. Emissa. They were my friends, despite everything. A strange feeling, to know they must consider me dead. To know they will have searched and grieved and are probably now moving on with their lives in Caten. I imagine what they’re doing right now. I wish I could have been honest with them.

Am I the only one who was so convinced he was gonna meet Eidhin in Luceum??

“You know, it’s not the Cataclysm, so much,” she observes. “It’s more that you might be our only hope of stopping it.”
I gesture rudely as Eidhin shakes his head. “That is barely a concern—”
“Thank you, Eidhin.”
“Barely a concern next to the fact there are apparently three of him now.”
“Gods. I’d almost forgotten that part,” says Aequa.
“Proof that evil powers are at play,” adds Eidhin gloomily.

Lmaooo i love

In my head, he turns to me and grins.

This hurts my soul.

We all tend to imagine that everyone who looks at us will remember us, but to most people we’re just bricks in a wall. Anonymity isn’t about being invisible. It’s about being forgotten.