by Akh Uur Hoon » Tue Aug 08, 2023 4:55 pm
Akh prepared urns and went with the bones to the crematorium. Once all those bones were separate piles of ash neatly enclosed, she brought them to the funerary spot, she lit incense, and performed the rites.
"Dear Elaria, deep inside us there is always the urge for a logical universe that we can know and see through, as we were supreme gods outside time and space. Believe me, I understand this. But even gods are within the universe, not outside of it, and so the universe shall forever remain one step ahead of whatever logic we can muster. You have had a wonderful journey of exploration, and don't bemoan its incompleteness, for it has reached the only end that we all can hope for - death. If you have the bravery to venture into True Death, however, this shall be your final act of discovery. In this, you have the chance to become what you studied, that infinite universe others will come to gaze into it with the same endless wonder that was yours in life."
"Dear Galen, your drive to bring as much goodness into this world as possible is very close to my own heart. I admire your ability to bring together the right intention and the right action. Those you saved might have already lived and died, but you had won them time to use well. No-one could ask anything more of you, not even yourself. I believe that your memory was cherished among those who owed you gratitude, and it may have inspired some of them to continue the good cause after you. You have made a mark, and so can go to your last journey into True Death with the same valiance that you demonstrated in life."
"Dear Rook, you lived like you died. Mind not the time you gambled wrong, be satisfied with all those times you gambled right. In a game of dice with death there is always only one winner, and yet you managed to keep playing against the odds for so long! Death is a great irony, and now you can partake in it. May this last daredevil leap into True Death be your final stunt, your master trick that leaves bystanders agape, the perfect disappearance from the crime scene of life. The joke is on the living."
She would still give them more justice before engraving the urns with more information, trying to find the records on the times of their deaths and the particular deeds of their lives. And if possible, also places of prior burials if they had them, for she was curious if Ikkit's sources weren't... exhumatory.
Akh prepared urns and went with the bones to the crematorium. Once all those bones were separate piles of ash neatly enclosed, she brought them to the funerary spot, she lit incense, and performed the rites.
[quote]"Dear Elaria, deep inside us there is always the urge for a logical universe that we can know and see through, as we were supreme gods outside time and space. Believe me, I understand this. But even gods are within the universe, not outside of it, and so the universe shall forever remain one step ahead of whatever logic we can muster. You have had a wonderful journey of exploration, and don't bemoan its incompleteness, for it has reached the only end that we all can hope for - death. If you have the bravery to venture into True Death, however, this shall be your final act of discovery. In this, you have the chance to become what you studied, that infinite universe others will come to gaze into it with the same endless wonder that was yours in life."[/quote]
[quote]"Dear Galen, your drive to bring as much goodness into this world as possible is very close to my own heart. I admire your ability to bring together the right intention and the right action. Those you saved might have already lived and died, but you had won them time to use well. No-one could ask anything more of you, not even yourself. I believe that your memory was cherished among those who owed you gratitude, and it may have inspired some of them to continue the good cause after you. You have made a mark, and so can go to your last journey into True Death with the same valiance that you demonstrated in life."[/quote]
[quote]"Dear Rook, you lived like you died. Mind not the time you gambled wrong, be satisfied with all those times you gambled right. In a game of dice with death there is always only one winner, and yet you managed to keep playing against the odds for so long! Death is a great irony, and now you can partake in it. May this last daredevil leap into True Death be your final stunt, your master trick that leaves bystanders agape, the perfect disappearance from the crime scene of life. The joke is on the living."[/quote]
She would still give them more justice before engraving the urns with more information, trying to find the records on the times of their deaths and the particular deeds of their lives. And if possible, also places of prior burials if they had them, for she was curious if Ikkit's sources weren't... exhumatory.