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“Time has been its own reward....I was kept well, after their fashion, lord. I have a place here. I have seen Gods returned. ”

"But payment...since you ask it, I would wish to know....how is it you come here? How do those Dead come back and stand as more then spectres of memory before eyes that watched them fall? And how many are there? Who is returned? I have apparently been succored far from the center of things."


"Beyond that, I have no wants, and my people survive on their prayers and toil. .....Do you remember how to get into the city? "
 
     
 
"As yet, we only half-remember," he admitted grudgingly, "We think still on the names."

"We were...collected," Zhijian answered after a moment of considering the phrasing, "Held safe in jewels, and now reborn by mortal sacrifice. As to others...there is at least Gaia, Universe, Knowledge, each of the Loves, Light, Number, Wind, Plague, Hunt, Dream, Underworld, Shen Lung, and Qian Lung." The names were recited haltingly as he rummaged through memory, both his own and his host's, and he included those who had yet to take over from their host. He had a fair memory for things - things from this life, at least. "And Wind and Hunt have spawned." Others would be left to Tian Yue.
     
"As Zhijian says," Tian Yue added, picking up where his brother left off. "Harmodius collected our essences in jewels and set them in mortal flesh, giving us body again and rebirth with mortal soul for fuel." A crass way of putting it, perhaps, but it was the quickest answer. "And I know more. We are not fully reborn, not at all, but still remain... Ti Lung, I have met. There is also Music. Medicine, Silence... Archery, a daughter of Wind and Hunt. Science. Greed, Poison. ...Trickery. There are others, but not many. We are perhaps fifty, all told, our eldest here merely four years, I believe. All except the Twin Crown. Empress there is. Consort... there is not."

He nodded to the Aoide. "And there is the measure of it. I am sure that you would be welcomed there, when times are better." Not if. When. There would be no 'if'. He would not allow it.

Another pause, then. "I do not remember. A word, spoken between the Caryatid... but nothing more... but I will remember." It was spoken as firmly as the 'when'.
 
     
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“Few....so very few. ”

Barely enough to fill a choir. And strange the list of those returned.


"Thank you lords. Until the time you have remembered, please partake of our houses. What we have is meager in the eyes of gods, but rich for these days and the days to come. While the mana lasts. "
     
Zhijian dipped his head in another nod, grateful and respectful, but leaving any further words to his brother. They tended to be more his specialty, anyway.
 
     
 
"Thank you," Tian Yue repeated, giving the ancient Aoide a respectful nod. "We will not burden your people unduly. As soon as memory wills, we will be gone... and your long service spoken to the Crown, when we can." He could give the Aoide that, at least. "We will work with all our strength so that these lives will be long, and happy. I may seek you again, Master of Lore."


((Ivy, if you want to reply again, feel free - if you want to wrap here, that's fine too. :3 'Tis up toyou and if the Aoide has anything more to say.))
     
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