[CLOSED] You think that all your time is used

[archademode]

WHO: Gabranth, Byerly, Derrica, Diana, Barrow, potentially tba
WHAT: local man has bills to pay, time to take on 100 low level quests
WHEN: catch-all, consider it fairly current with a little give
WHERE: Gallows, Lowtown, tbd
NOTES: catch-all for threads involving (1) millenial judge magister in need of jobs + bonus horsegirl chapter + old men fights

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[archademode]

Not even amongst your own people?

[How strange, or— perhaps not, he supposes. If their numbers were few enough the odds of them turning teeth on one another like wolves would be less likely. But for a man that’s seen far too much of the rise and fall of kindness giving way to hatred, his imagination is shamefully limited.]

[truthtied]

[ There is a part of her always that wishes to curl around the history of Themyscira, protect it from the eyes of outsiders. It's a small part. ]

Not quite like what you've described, but. Once. Long before my birth, there was a battle that did cause a rift on our island that's still felt today. We are long lived and marks on one's heart do not heal quite as cleanly as marks on one's body.

[ One hand touches the sleek metal bracelet at her wrist. Changed by the trip through the Rift, it doesn't gleam quite as brightly, but it's still itself. Sorrow and pride all at once. ]

[archademode]

I understand.

[Perhaps not fully, in truth, watching her reach down to set careful contact across the glint of cool metal at her wrist— but something lingers there, so near to being tangible in the wake of her words, that he finds it almost familiar, in a sense.]

I was emburdened with life beyond what any man ought endure.

There are those who promise time acts as balm for deeper wounds, but for all those whose lives run on endlessly, no such peace exists in truth.

[The longer you draw breath, the longer you keep old scars alive, is that not the way of it?]

[truthtied]

Perhaps time is not the treatment we're led to believe it is. After all, a wound left in the dark can fester, even with all the time of existence to heal.

[ It's gently said, perhaps an offer if he wishes to see it as such. Which is perhaps ridiculous as they barely know each other, but. He seems to carry something heavier than his armor. And Diana can't imagine not offering assistance. ]

[archademode]

[It pulls something from him, just the faintest sound of approval. He knows she likely means to comfort him, and though he cannot bear the brush of kindness— it is its own matter to be so understood by someone else.]

Then I pray this world may yet prove to be salve to you as well.

[Fresh air, a second chance, whatever it is viewed to be, there is potential in it for them both.]