[when she leans in closer, he pauses, a few moments-- then exhales a slow sigh, arm wrapping around her. it feels far more natural than it normally does, this week, and it isn't something he can run from forever.]
We do not know why, yet. I cannot say with certainty. But it seems that this will continue, and so you must accept what they are. That most are simply not made to live indefinitely.
[even if not through this, even if they were not killed... they would be lost, in what feels like such a short time to his kind. likely to her, too, familiar that she is.]
That they are susceptible to this, as well, to whatever this prism has done to ensure such deaths. There must be something to them which allows it to take advantage of this flaw.
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We do not know why, yet. I cannot say with certainty. But it seems that this will continue, and so you must accept what they are. That most are simply not made to live indefinitely.
[even if not through this, even if they were not killed... they would be lost, in what feels like such a short time to his kind. likely to her, too, familiar that she is.]
That they are susceptible to this, as well, to whatever this prism has done to ensure such deaths. There must be something to them which allows it to take advantage of this flaw.