[Reflection though he is not, Erichthonios begins to grow pale as it dawns on him just what those words mean.]
...So it is alike to when Lahabrea tore his existence in two, and created Hephaistos...
[Two selves. Memories cleaved. Aether diffused, split between a body and a crystal, and then the body the aether from that crystal later inhabited.]
Themis said that his actions had bordered on insanity. That he might have rewritten his very existence, and that escaping with his life was a miracle. So, that is what became of us... not between two, but...
[His head dips, and the last word, he struggles to say.]
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Date: 2026-01-29 03:24 am (UTC)...So it is alike to when Lahabrea tore his existence in two, and created Hephaistos...
[Two selves. Memories cleaved. Aether diffused, split between a body and a crystal, and then the body the aether from that crystal later inhabited.]
Themis said that his actions had bordered on insanity. That he might have rewritten his very existence, and that escaping with his life was a miracle. So, that is what became of us... not between two, but...
[His head dips, and the last word, he struggles to say.]
...fourteen...