[he has no way to be certain. less than a year, but...
but. like i mentioned to you, kanda is going to get more context on that since i'm matching you on all this. first, this memory, and then a continuation-- the revelation he had not very long before arriving here.]
[There's a lot to take in here, but the first thing that strikes him is the explanation for Mathis's instability. It's the same reasons he'd been put to death, back then--and if he were more science-oriented himself, he might've had the capacity to wonder what it is about memories and bodies and souls, why they never seem to work the way the people who created them want them to.
(Is it always love? He thinks of kept and broken promises and You've grown up well and the pain of a crumbling body and--)
...But, hold on. That man had said "every night," and yet--]
[it takes him a minute to answer, after going through that once more. it's still-- relatively fresh, to him, only offset by the weeks of being trapped here, and still so...
he doesn't know what to think, anymore.]
It... might be something to do with being summoned here...? I thought- I was expecting to die not long after we arrived, but I'm still...
[instead, others have died. instead, he's been left living while it happens, watching them be lost.]
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[he has no way to be certain. less than a year, but...
but. like i mentioned to you, kanda is going to get more context on that since i'm matching you on all this. first, this memory, and then a continuation-- the revelation he had not very long before arriving here.]
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(Is it always love? He thinks of kept and broken promises and You've grown up well and the pain of a crumbling body and--)
...But, hold on. That man had said "every night," and yet--]
You haven't died.
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[it takes him a minute to answer, after going through that once more. it's still-- relatively fresh, to him, only offset by the weeks of being trapped here, and still so...
he doesn't know what to think, anymore.]
It... might be something to do with being summoned here...? I thought- I was expecting to die not long after we arrived, but I'm still...
[instead, others have died. instead, he's been left living while it happens, watching them be lost.]
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[So it's not like it's a huge surprise that their bodies are affected, but--he hadn't thought about it in terms of something like this.]