[rio is an odd mix of salamander and axolotl, and the feeling of her skin likely reflects that. or scales really, dry and cool but oddly smooth. she seems content to trill softly and rest against ortus, closing her massive eyes as viktor takes in that body count with a grimace.]
Was the infant Harrow or Gideon? [he can't help but ask. he hasn't meant harrow but gideon is clearly younger than ortus, and what a way to be raised for either of them, in childless halls.
he thinks of palamedes speaking of the troubles of the sixth with valid family lines, consanguinity. he wonders if such a thing is a death sentence for the ninth, and what is done about that if it's true. what would happen to this dreaded tomb with no guardians?]
I can imagine it was an impossible task, how a house can grieve and still raise the few survivors without letting that grief cause undue damage. [a pause and he offers,] In the undercity many do not make it, for one reason or another. It is never spoken of but I am sure we have all felt those moments of wondering why we were the ones to survive it all, in the end.
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Was the infant Harrow or Gideon? [he can't help but ask. he hasn't meant harrow but gideon is clearly younger than ortus, and what a way to be raised for either of them, in childless halls.
he thinks of palamedes speaking of the troubles of the sixth with valid family lines, consanguinity. he wonders if such a thing is a death sentence for the ninth, and what is done about that if it's true. what would happen to this dreaded tomb with no guardians?]
I can imagine it was an impossible task, how a house can grieve and still raise the few survivors without letting that grief cause undue damage. [a pause and he offers,] In the undercity many do not make it, for one reason or another. It is never spoken of but I am sure we have all felt those moments of wondering why we were the ones to survive it all, in the end.