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[wishmadeinfire]

You know... it suddenly struck me this afternoon that in exactly one week, I will be a year closer to my three hundredth birthday. Three whole centuries, even if I am not quite there yet. Just over twenty years left to go...  

It also struck me that, being here, I might actually live to see it. 

[And with that wistful little moment, he goes back to sitting in the gardens at a small little table with four chairs, sipping his tea in the evening warmth with some little sweets before him, watching some fireflies dance for the last time before it becomes to cold.]

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[hvic]

Three hundred years is a long time. [ She had been listening in as he spoke into his journal. She wasn't normally nosy, but the part about his age had intrigued her. ]

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[wishmadeinfire]

_{[He looked over at her, setting his cup down with a clink.]}

I suppose it is, to some. It makes me merely a young adult in my culture.

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[hvic]

Vampire?

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[wishmadeinfire]

Vampire? Haha, no, not at all. My race just naturally lives quite a time.

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[hvic]

Oh? [ Her eyebrows raise slightly. ] And what race would that be?

[legacydeck]

I must admit, I'm surprised to know there's someone here with a few years on me.

[wishmadeinfire]

Heh, there's always one, am I right?

[legacydeck]

[He laughs]

In legend only, at home.

[wishmadeinfire]

So, you are the legend at home, I am guessing?

[inafadingcrown]

You are young still, my friend. [Chuckles and quietly makes note of the date.]

[wishmadeinfire]

_{[He laughed.]}

According to you? Why yes, I am, dear grandmother

_{[That whole experience is still very amusing to him, just so you know.]}

[inafadingcrown]

[She can tell!] You laugh, but my youngest grandchild is hundreds of years your elder. By age alone, the castle was not in error.

[wishmadeinfire]

_{[He laughed at that.]}

No, it is hard to think of you as anyone's daughter, my friend.

Ashura

[kungfuwitch]

[She's about to say something cheerful when she hears that last sentence. She pauses for a moment]

You didn't think you'd live to see your three hundredth birthday?

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[wishmadeinfire]

There was a war in my home world. It tends to make one have smaller expectations of life expectancy.

_{[Let's avoid the fact he had planned suicide, but only a few people know that - three, precisely.]}

Ashura

[kungfuwitch]

Oh, Ashura... I'm sorry. [Though she can relate to some extent... having died a couple of times herself thanks to the demons they fight on a daily basis]

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[wishmadeinfire]

It is all right. I have found a measure of peace here, and happiness, so when I go back... well, at least I will have been given this.

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[siebter]

Wow, that's great! I don't even remember when I turned 300.

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[wishmadeinfire]

You are beyond 300?

And here I thought those of us in the League of Centuries were fewer.

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[siebter]

Hehe, yeah. I'm more than a thousand years old!

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[wishmadeinfire]

Ah, then you definitely have myself beat. I think only Galadriel and her husband have you beat.

[circleoflife]

Three centuries... It is difficult for me to even grasp such a passage of time.

[Since his lifespan is, you know. A dozen years.]

[wishmadeinfire]

_{[Ah well, sure it feels like more to you, Mufasa.]}

Heh, when I first came here, I was surprised that not everyone lived so long. Such ages are normal in my world.

[circleoflife]

My own time is a mere breath in comparison.

[wishmadeinfire]

But nonetheless a breath worth taking.