⟪ is there a reason she is still here? the question has her looking as though he had struck her across the face, for just a moment, before she gathers her features into order again. she had known she'd outlived a human lifespan easily, but that it had been by this much, no, that had been a surprise.
the how of it is simple – the red god bestows strange powers upon his followers, in her case, he held her together, kept her as she was for centuries now, so she can go on, day in day out, until her mission is completed. ⟫
The Lord of Light would not let me die until my purpose was served.
⟪ not when she was a slave girl, not when she was starving, not when asshai took everything it could from her and then some. ⟫
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the how of it is simple – the red god bestows strange powers upon his followers, in her case, he held her together, kept her as she was for centuries now, so she can go on, day in day out, until her mission is completed. ⟫
The Lord of Light would not let me die until my purpose was served.
⟪ not when she was a slave girl, not when she was starving, not when asshai took everything it could from her and then some. ⟫
By natural means, that is.