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[sendinthecavalry]

So.

[It's a wonderful way to start a video out, Cayde's quite aware of that; eloquence, thy name is Exo.]

Anyone feeling a little...strange recently? Perhaps a bit normal?

[He's weedling for answers and not being subtle about it, no apologies ever. Not when he can feel his Light racing through his veins in sharp pulses. The start and stop nature of it, and what Astoria had said previously about the temple itself, is equal parts comforting and horrifying. One moment he feels alive and the next nothing, back to nothing more than a dulled machine.]

I know our lovely lady in the sky supposedly gave us all magic, I don't know I've only seen it, but I mean. Anyone feeling a little bit more like themselves then they have in a while?

[This is way too much of a coincidence.]

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[sendinthecavalry]

[It's hard not to pick up on the cherrypicking, and for a moment Cayde falls quiet as he tries to discern what might actually be being asked of him. Ultimately he comes up with nothing, he doesn't know Firo well enough to judge, but perhaps it would behoove him to be a little less forthcoming.]

Okay, conditional immortality; undying, not invincible. [He's a bit wary on giving that up now, but proceeds regardless.] And I told you before. I was dead, and then I wasn't. Wasn't really my choice, all things considered.

[foundafamily]

Hey, I'm just curious. You can't blame a guy for wondering about a story like that.

[Firo would be calling bullshit if a similar thing hadn't happened to him; he never expected to wake up again after Dallas's posse cornered him, Ennis, and the Gandors with tommy guns... but wake up they did.]

[sendinthecavalry]

Okay, I do have to give you that point. [There have been a number of things that he's found fantastical since arriving here, it would only be fair that someone else found his mundane life strange. It's still slightly suspicious, however, but there's no further prodding and so he lets things go for the time.]

I'm guessing things are a little different 'round your parts?

[foundafamily]

Yeah. Immortality's not exactly normal there...

[Which is true, but also only the beginning of the story. Does he share or doesn't he? Might as well get it all out in the open now and see what happens.]

...And it works differently there too. I got it by drinking the elixir.

[sendinthecavalry]

Wait, wait, hold up. I think you skipped a couple of steps there, bud.

[There are...other circle members that are immortal? He supposes that he shouldn't be surprised, but it's still something to take in all the same.]

Wanna run that one by me one more time?

[foundafamily]

There's not much to it. I'm immortal, same as you, but I got there with the elixir instead.

[sendinthecavalry]

"The elixir". [That sure is a lot of questioning in those two words, yep.]

[foundafamily]

Yeah. It looks like wine, actually, but it makes you immortal when you drink it.

[sendinthecavalry]

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Y'know what? Sure. That's just as crazy as my story, so why not. Hope it was at least a good vintage, I feel like immortality wine should be a good vintage.

[foundafamily]

[His grin might be audible in his voice.]

It was good quality stuff. That's why I, uh--got it in the first place. I didn't know what it actually was.

["Got" being a nicer way of saying "grabbed it off a guy while he was unconscious."]

[sendinthecavalry]

Hell, what a bonus! You got some luck there. Go in for a good drink, come back with immortality; sounds like a pretty damn good deal to me.

[Really, that’s some serious luck. Cayde’s actually impressed.]

[foundafamily]

Don't I know it. It's been a couple years, but sometimes I still can't believe it myself.

[sendinthecavalry]

Hey, take it and run with it. Sometimes you just gotta accept that something awesome has happened.

[foundafamily]

You're right about that.

[This guy gets it! No need to get all weepy about immortality and the prospect of eternity.]

You know, it's not always the case, but it's actually good to meet another immortal here.

[In other words, "nice to meet you; glad you haven't tried to eat me yet."]

[sendinthecavalry]

Heh. I'll be honest, been a while since I've been called that. But the sentiment is all the same, so right back at you. Kinda good to hear that things are...well okay so they're not the same throughout this big messed up multiverse, but at least they're kind of alike? Maybe? Sort of? If you squint.

[The fact that immortality exists elsewhere is actually strangely comforting, huh.]

[foundafamily]

Yeah. As weird as everything is, I guess everything's not so strange.

[Or maybe it's more strange, since they're here as two immortal guys who got that way in different ways and in different worlds? Who knows.]