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[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

I hope you all plan to start laughing and crying soon. Apparently that's what's expected of us and I don't know about the rest of you but I hate it here already. So get to it. Maybe they'll send us back sooner.

Or maybe they won't. Has anyone seen a bench I could wait all this out on? By a window maybe. I would prefer cushions if it's going to be over 7 years, but stone will do.

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[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

What sets you apart from Men?

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

Greater strength and speed, a longer life, and perhaps a lessened tendency to fall prey to Men's foibles, but I find that false.

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

How much longer a life?

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

You have seen me, haven't you?

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

Yes and?

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

I am aged seven and eighty.

[ Explanation enough :| ]

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

So when do you die?

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

When I choose to.

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

What a luxury you must consider yourself quite fortunate.

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

A fortune passed down to me by my ancestors.

For how long have you lived?

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

I've lost count.

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

Mayhap in the thousands?

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

Probably.

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

[ You remind him of the Nazguls, Witness. ]

Long life is considered a boon rather than a bane.

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

Yes I'm sure some of them are. There are a lot of smug long-lived bastards out there so they must be enjoying themselves somehow.

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

There are many of my world who would agree with your assessment of the immortal.

[ If your grief is not aimed at a wish for longer life... ]

Can you not die?

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

Oh well it must be universal then how nice.

If I can it hasn't worked yet.

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

Will you tell me why you wish to?

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

If you'll tell me convincingly why you would care.

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

I would wish to think of you as a friend.

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

[ whoa hello there, longest and most bewildered pause ever ]

Why?

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

There are many reasons, but the chief amongst them is simply that I wish to, especially in this bleak, uncertain world.

Is that so strange?

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

[ UH YES. WEIRDING HIM OUT HERE, OKAY. ]

Yes.

[therangerking.livejournal.com]

What can I say to convince you?

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

It could make some kind of sense when you consider the fact that you don't know me at all. Still I would say you choose friends very poorly.