( video | un: offseer )

[offseers]

[ this is strange to do without the iris network, but it isn't hard. every network is the same after all. ]

Hello. I have a few questions, if people don't mind.

1) How does time work here? Does it pass? Do people really get older?

2) Has anyone died on a mission?

3) How old are you?

I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.

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[offseers]

All right. I'll reach out to them.

Can I ask how?

[blackfire]

He was shot.

[offseers]

What happened afterwards?

[blackfire]

He was revived by a member of our team.

（ sabriel admitted to it publicly, so it isn't as if he's sharing some dark and terrible secret — but it was so long ago now that very few who were party to it remain. ）

[offseers]

[ revived. ]

With what power?

[blackfire]

Necromancy.

[offseers]

Was it someone on the ship? How did they manage it? Could someone learn that?

[blackfire]

Yes, with difficulty, no.

[offseers]

I see.

Thank you. I'll keep looking for answers.

[blackfire]

To what?

[offseers]

I lost someone. And I don't know how long I have before I lose myself too.

I need to bring her back before I go.

[blackfire]

May I ask if that is what brought you to the Ximilia?

[offseers]

[ noah hesitates. the memory was still too raw, his knuckles still bruised.

but that's why he was here. ]

My friends were prepared for execution. I wanted to undo that.

[ his words make everything seem so small. he hates it. ]

[blackfire]

（ ah. ）

There are many here with similar regrets.

I wish you luck in changing yours.

（ everyone is a villain to someone. he knows full well he could be saying that to one who does not deserve it. but in the moment, he prefers to focus on the fact that he is speaking to someone that is hurting, and not who else may be hurt by the regret's undoing in that case. ）

[offseers]

Thank you.

[ another long pause. ]

Has anyone managed it?

[blackfire]

We would be the first to do so.

[offseers]

[ hm. ]

A long mission, then.

[blackfire]

Yes. I do not know and will not guess at how many orbs remain.

[offseers]

But you have hope?

[blackfire]

（ what a curious thing, to find that after all this time — ）

I do.

[offseers]

Then I'll try to hold onto some too.

[blackfire]

It is all any of us have in the end.

[offseers]

Is it?

Is that what you would feel at the end?

🔒

[blackfire]

（ he shifts this to a locked thread more because he is a private man, rather than the fact that he is actually concerned with speaking voice to death.

so — ）

It was.

I arrived on the Ximilia shortly after my own.

[offseers]

I didn't feel that way.

I was about to die. A man had a sword right above my neck. He swung it down.

And then I was here.