We... don't know how it happens, exactly, but-- the curse kills everyone by the time they're twenty-three years old. They say it's "a land loved by Death".
[oh no. now he's going to have to explain things more...
sorry to the law of the land but this is not the land so it's fine]
We can still get around the curse, we just can't... cure it.
So long as you have your genes and your memory backed up before you die, then you can revive in a cloned body. B-but you'll always physically be the same age, and that body will die in twenty-three years, too...
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[he definitely had, he's a curious little nerd.]
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[ why would anyone expect you to memorize them. ]
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[why would anyone expect that!! but it's just habit.]
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Anyone's paper stand out to you?
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[that's what stood out the most, to him.]
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[HE KNOWS HE LOOKS YOUNG BUT.]
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[gasp...]
I-is it true that people really develop wrinkles when they grow old? Was their hair all white-?
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They have white hair, and bad backs, and croaky voices, and wrinkles all over.
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[gaaaaasp]
H-how old is... the oldest person you've met...?
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... What about you? [ she is suddenly realizing the alarming implications of someone not knowing anyone over forty ]
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[so, uh, that old.]
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[ say that nicer. and like she knows anything about curses. unfortunately she's real bad at expressing sympathy. ]
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[he shrinks in on himself a little as if this is somehow his own fault.]
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way too long trying to figure out what to say. ]
... I'm sorry. That's horrible.
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[so it's not like it feels so terrible, to live with the knowledge of a short lifespan.]
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but then she's like
thinking about this more and unfortunately has no social skills, so: ]
Does everyone just have kids young? Who even raises them?
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[oh no. now he's going to have to explain things more...
sorry to the law of the land but this is not the land so it's fine]
We can still get around the curse, we just can't... cure it.
So long as you have your genes and your memory backed up before you die, then you can revive in a cloned body. B-but you'll always physically be the same age, and that body will die in twenty-three years, too...
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[ oh ok ]
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