He traces a finger around the rim of his teacup, as though deliberating on this next bit, and looks Viktor in the eye. ]
Our system was in rough shape, way back when. I built the Nine Houses from dust and rubble. Its people have life because I gave them life. And that's not a parlor trick: I pulled their souls out of the water and remade the bodies they'd lost. It took a long time... It took a hell of a long time to rebuild.
But I had help. I had my twelve disciples... sixteen, by the time things really kicked off, but it started with the twelve. [ He smiles again, thinly. ] They were my first resurrections.
[ He pauses, here, on the cusp of something. Remina looms and watches. ]
no subject
[ The statement hangs. Remina does not protest.
He traces a finger around the rim of his teacup, as though deliberating on this next bit, and looks Viktor in the eye. ]
Our system was in rough shape, way back when. I built the Nine Houses from dust and rubble. Its people have life because I gave them life. And that's not a parlor trick: I pulled their souls out of the water and remade the bodies they'd lost. It took a long time... It took a hell of a long time to rebuild.
But I had help. I had my twelve disciples... sixteen, by the time things really kicked off, but it started with the twelve. [ He smiles again, thinly. ] They were my first resurrections.
[ He pauses, here, on the cusp of something. Remina looms and watches. ]