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[neverdied]

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[foreshadower]

The Shade.

I assume you are not my good friend Dorian Gray, are you?

[neverdied]

Nope. Know him though. The whiny immortal kid?

[foreshadower]

At our ages, "kid" is rather inappropriate, don't you think?

[neverdied]

Depends what age you think we are.

[foreshadower]

I was actually talking about Dorian and I, but please, do share.

[neverdied]

You as old as him?

[foreshadower]

Older, as far as I'm aware. We stop counting after a certain point, I'm afraid.

[neverdied]

He said he was 150.

[foreshadower]

Right, right. I'm over two-hundred. It's close enough. What's a lifetime or two among immortals?

[neverdied]

Right. That's a long time to be alive.
You're actually immortal? How?

[foreshadower]

I made the mistake of drinking with Charles Dickens.
Multiple times.
Around cultists.

[neverdied]

Magical cultists made you live forever?

[foreshadower]

In a roundabout way, yes.

[ You know, get drunk with your bff dickens, watch a bunch of cultists sacrifice their lives, get immortality from cthulhu. That's how these things go. ]

[neverdied]

Well. That's a new one.

[foreshadower]

Mm, quite the unusual origin, I will admit.

However, not quite as unusual as others from my world. There's a man who throws himself in a pit of healing water every time he gets too old.

[neverdied]

Your world has a pit of healing water?
Why doesn't everyone use it?

[foreshadower]

It does drive a man insane.
There is also the added requirement that you are friends with said immortal. He's had a lock on those for some time, as far as I've been able to tell.

Not that I've bothered looking, you understand. No need.

[neverdied]

We don't have that where I'm from. No abundance of immortals or youth fountains.

[foreshadower]

But you do have them? You don't seem surprised by the concept.

[neverdied]

Hard to be surprised by anything after this world.

[foreshadower]

Perhaps.
It is a rather astounding sort of place, isn't it?

[neverdied]

I guess. At least it's different. Been here long?

[foreshadower]

Four years, yes.

I never thought four years could be a long time.

[neverdied]

Long by these standards, so I hear.

[foreshadower]

Quite so, yes.
And yet it feels no more real than when I arrived.