Hello, Konoha. Not at all. I was just doing some light reading.
[On many nights he likes to read books by local poets, historians, philosophers, and the like, but tonight he's cozied up with a novel called The Sister's Sin, which is about as cerebral as one might expect from the name—and from the cover art.]
[Ironically, Konoha tried to go back to her borrowed copy of The Wicked Brotherhood tonight, but... Constantin's words are sticking in her head. And also... she's encountered more words she doesn't know and she feels a bit bad texting to ask for more definitions.
And though she almost just asks what he's reading instead...]
i 's
[No wait, she learned how to do this recently-]
my room mate disappeared so i am feeling sad and in want of talking
He disappeared from Noctium? I'm sorry to hear that.
[Is it crueller to think that he's gone for good, or to hope that he might come back? Most people here would wish to return to their own worlds, if they could. He doesn't know which it is for Konoha's housemate.]
yes and he was spirit not living man so can not say to self "he has important duty to return to" or "he will be happy to go home" like LIEM or like other
and so sadness
[the kanji for "devastated" is too complicated she can't remember how to write it...]
[there's a long pause between texts as she tries to figure out the answer, how to talk about it without everything just bubbling up, but-]
when i come here first days i was so much scared and so sad looking for family and not wanting to accept they are gone from i
meeting CHIRON was coincidence but he helped me helped with EMBASSY to receive special permission for not living in box house offer help with many things and
[she hesitates to say it, yet maybe... Liem kind of understood now, she doesn't mean anything insulting towards human-shaped people when she says this, but--]
he was shaped like i before curse to human shape he understood many things and give i someone to take care of. feeling of coming home cooking for washing for sleeping next to when lonely
That does sound comforting, yes. He sounds like a very good friend, as well as a good housemate.
I can imagine it could get lonely for you to live away from the city with only yourself for company. Do you think you might look for another person to live with, now?
[It might help her to not feel the loss quite as keenly, he thinks. But perhaps she would prefer privacy for the time being.]
[and it just hurts to say it in past tense and not be able to comfort herself that... he was happy somewhere else.]
i do not know in i 's in my life i have only lived with parents and then husband CHIRON was surprise i respect ones who can but i do not think i like to live alone but also it feels like disrespect to welcome new house mate now but to move i cannot leave linden tree
[and whether he knows the species or not, there was a very, very large tree by the barn]
There's no need to force it. If it doesn't feel right to accept a new housemate right now, you might feel differently later on.
But perhaps if you are in need of company, you might have friends stay over temporarily, at least some of the time. On days that I do not work, it wouldn't be any inconvenience to me to stay somewhere else for a night or two.
[Not that he wouldn't visit Konoha if it was an inconvenience to him, but he knows that she doesn't like to impose on others.]
i think i would like this if is truly not a bother LIEM would visit? routine need not change if want to read i no bother i can practice reading also and if GREATMOON GROVES is not comfortable i buy shoes now i have shoes to not damage fancy floor could visit instead...
[she doesn't know if she needs the company to be In the Barn or just Company, but]
CHIRON never ask i for anything not one thing even though he does so much for i only thing he ask i for is to grow that tree when i grow it i promise it i will take care of it if it grow big and strong so fast because of EMERALD and not nature so i will
You are more than welcome to visit my home, but I do not think you would be comfortable there. It is very... compact.
[She's seen the outside: it's a very tall and narrow building, with many stairs. There also is no way someone of Konoha's dimensions could possibly use any of his bathrooms.]
I would be more than happy to stay with you now and then. Don't worry about accommodating me; I slept in all kinds of places when I used to travel, including in haylofts and on roadsides. I don't need a human bed to be comfortable.
Did he tell you why he wanted you to grow a linden tree?
is true but i do still have shoe now just so you know
[if he ever gets sick! or she doesn't know, she just felt bad about tracking dirt into people's houses]
i think my bed is comfortable for human i have blanket and pillow not just hay and reed and is much big promise
yes in CHIRON's world jinba is called centaur and centaur is more like beast more wild CHIRON is different because CHIRON is god's child but when mother bears and child is centaur mother thinks she has birthed a beast she beg gods to take her from such fate and they transform her to linden tree is escape i suppose but is cruel story
[It does seem like a cruel story, yes. Liem's mother didn't live long enough to regret the birth of her second child, but he's not sure he could have blamed her if she had. So being turned into a tree seems excessive to him, but then he supposes her wish angered whichever god sired her child.]
So the tree is like a memorial of sorts, for his mother?
[sounds believable... Chiron hadn't seemed to resent the woman for her weakness, and so she had tried to think kindly of her also. After all... He'd asked for a linden tree.
And reminded her that maybe everyone, even the children of gods, long for that sort of comfort.]
yes i think so
not yet i do not know what to do except put PHOTOGRAPH on altar there is no body to burn no bones to keep or bury only beads of linden seed he make i but this i wear
When someone passes in my homeland, it is customary to inter the body in a crypt or in the earth beneath a headstone. Even if there is no body to bury, a headstone might still be erected for loved ones to visit and mourn at.
But I think a picture on an altar already serves that purpose. And if it is a more familiar custom, it's probably best to stick with what is more meaningful for you.
[she... really appreciates that he can acknowledge that while also still encouraging her to talk. note to self... cook something really nice when he visits.]
CHIRON was much wise man and strong warrior who is famous for raising strong hero legend in his world maybe many worlds? other people tell me the name CHIRON before i meet him when i ask about jinba in other worlds
so he teach many things medicinal herb and healing thinking and strategy fighting hand to hand and also weapon like bow
[Even though Liem is most assuredly not descended from any gods, he can at least understand being being haunted by the feeling of being other because of one's race or lineage. Perhaps even demigods yearn for quiet, ordinary lives.]
You wouldn't rather keep those things with you? Or maybe offer them to his student?
I don't know how appropriate it is for me to receive something of his. I only ever met him once.
[Perhaps some of them do. Perhaps she’d been happy to provide a taste of that for someone who had been so kind to her. But now-]
CHIRON teach several here but no archery student because in this place is not needed by most people he had magic student and hand fighting student most
but i want item to be used proper is a shame for item to be made and then collect dust if LIEM would use arrow I would like to give
i will keep LYRE i is no good at but was learning a little
[Liem has some doubts about how useful a bow made for a demigod would be to him, but arrows are arrows, and Konoha is right about people here not having much use for archery. He had to hunt down a specialty shop just to find somewhere that would sell arrows to him, and only then at a price that would make a miser weep.]
Then yes, I will take them. You're right, it's good for items to see use.
I hope you continue to practise with the lyre. I would like to hear you play.
[To be honest she thinks the bow might be too large for him, now that she thinks about it a bit better. She might not be an archer, but she knew enough basics to know that size mattered with a bow, and Chiron's was made to be pulled back by a centaur who weight a tight 1,200.]
yes i think so i have no talent for archery i make and use trap so would be grateful to see use for arrows.
do you want to listen? i can only play most simple beginner song but sound of instrument is beautiful we no have this LYRE in my world
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apology for TEXT so late in evening
is you busy?
[Konoha... It's 9pm.]
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Not at all. I was just doing some light reading.
[On many nights he likes to read books by local poets, historians, philosophers, and the like, but tonight he's cozied up with a novel called The Sister's Sin, which is about as cerebral as one might expect from the name—and from the cover art.]
What can I do for you?
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And though she almost just asks what he's reading instead...]
i 's
[No wait, she learned how to do this recently-]
my room mate disappeared
so i am feeling sad and in want of talking
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[Is it crueller to think that he's gone for good, or to hope that he might come back? Most people here would wish to return to their own worlds, if they could. He doesn't know which it is for Konoha's housemate.]
What are you doing right now?
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and he was spirit
not living man
so can not say to self
"he has important duty to return to"
or
"he will be happy to go home"
like LIEM
or like other
and so
sadness
[the kanji for "devastated" is too complicated she can't remember how to write it...]
now?
is lying down
was trying reading
but failed
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Oh, I see.
Would you like to talk about it? Maybe tell me more about him?
Or would you prefer to speak of something else?
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[there's a long pause between texts as she tries to figure out the answer, how to talk about it without everything just bubbling up, but-]
when i come here
first days
i was so much scared
and so sad
looking for family and not wanting to accept
they are gone from i
meeting CHIRON was coincidence
but
he helped me
helped with EMBASSY to receive special permission for not living in box house
offer help with many things
and
[she hesitates to say it, yet maybe... Liem kind of understood now, she doesn't mean anything insulting towards human-shaped people when she says this, but--]
he was shaped like i before curse to human shape
he understood many things
and
give i someone to take care of.
feeling of coming home
cooking for
washing for
sleeping next to when lonely
and now is much quiet here.
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I can imagine it could get lonely for you to live away from the city with only yourself for company. Do you think you might look for another person to live with, now?
[It might help her to not feel the loss quite as keenly, he thinks. But perhaps she would prefer privacy for the time being.]
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he was.
[and it just hurts to say it in past tense and not be able to comfort herself that... he was happy somewhere else.]
i do not know
in i 's
in my life
i have only lived with parents and then husband
CHIRON was surprise
i respect ones who can
but i do not think i like to live alone
but also it feels like disrespect to welcome new house mate now
but to move
i cannot leave linden tree
[and whether he knows the species or not, there was a very, very large tree by the barn]
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But perhaps if you are in need of company, you might have friends stay over temporarily, at least some of the time. On days that I do not work, it wouldn't be any inconvenience to me to stay somewhere else for a night or two.
[Not that he wouldn't visit Konoha if it was an inconvenience to him, but he knows that she doesn't like to impose on others.]
What is significant about the tree?
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i would like this
if is truly not a bother
LIEM would visit?
routine need not change
if want to read i no bother i can practice reading also
and if GREATMOON GROVES is not comfortable
i buy shoes
now i have shoes to not damage fancy floor
could visit instead...
[she doesn't know if she needs the company to be In the Barn or just Company, but]
CHIRON never ask i for anything
not one thing
even though he does so much for i
only thing he ask i for
is to grow that tree
when i grow it
i promise it i will take care of it
if it grow big and strong so fast because of EMERALD and not nature
so i will
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[She's seen the outside: it's a very tall and narrow building, with many stairs. There also is no way someone of Konoha's dimensions could possibly use any of his bathrooms.]
I would be more than happy to stay with you now and then. Don't worry about accommodating me; I slept in all kinds of places when I used to travel, including in haylofts and on roadsides. I don't need a human bed to be comfortable.
Did he tell you why he wanted you to grow a linden tree?
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but i do still have shoe now
just
so you know
[if he ever gets sick! or
she doesn't know, she just felt bad about tracking dirt into people's houses]
i think my bed is comfortable for human
i have blanket and pillow
not just hay and reed
and is much big
promise
yes
in CHIRON's world jinba is called centaur
and centaur is more like beast more wild
CHIRON is different because CHIRON is god's child
but when mother bears
and child is centaur
mother thinks she has birthed a beast
she beg gods to take her from such fate
and they transform her to linden tree
is escape i suppose
but is cruel story
[she tries not to judge other moms but... BUT...]
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[It does seem like a cruel story, yes. Liem's mother didn't live long enough to regret the birth of her second child, but he's not sure he could have blamed her if she had. So being turned into a tree seems excessive to him, but then he supposes her wish angered whichever god sired her child.]
So the tree is like a memorial of sorts, for his mother?
[...]
Do you have a memorial for Chiron, too?
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And reminded her that maybe everyone, even the children of gods, long for that sort of comfort.]
yes i think so
not yet
i do not know what to do
except put PHOTOGRAPH on altar
there is no body to burn
no bones to keep or bury
only beads of linden seed he make i
but this i wear
if is LIEM's world
what do you do... ?
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But I think a picture on an altar already serves that purpose. And if it is a more familiar custom, it's probably best to stick with what is more meaningful for you.
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in a little while
i will pick a PHOTOGRAPH then
CHIRON let me practice taking on him
so i have choice
i should tell CHIRON's friends and student also
for final duty
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What kinds of things did he teach to his student?
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CHIRON was much wise man and strong warrior
who is famous for raising strong hero
legend in his world
maybe many worlds?
other people tell me the name CHIRON before i meet him when i ask about jinba in other worlds
so he teach many things
medicinal herb and healing
thinking and strategy
fighting hand to hand and also weapon like bow
LIEM use also yes?
bow?
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But I recall you mentioning before that he would hunt game for the two of you to eat.
[Should Liem hunt something to bring with him when he visits? Would that be polite?]
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CHIRON better than i at many things too
but is a little cheating because is actual god’s child
no need to compare
and
CHIRON says
he stays with i because
just can be a jinba
not big legend CHIRON
so maybe is better to say
LIEM maybe could beat
no way to check now
but maybe
if you need arrow or new bow
i now has and has no need for
if you want
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You wouldn't rather keep those things with you? Or maybe offer them to his student?
I don't know how appropriate it is for me to receive something of his. I only ever met him once.
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CHIRON teach several here
but no archery student
because in this place is not needed by most people
he had magic student and hand fighting student most
but i want item to be used proper
is a shame for item to be made and then collect dust
if LIEM would use arrow I would like to give
i will keep LYRE
i is no good at
but was learning a little
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Then yes, I will take them. You're right, it's good for items to see use.
I hope you continue to practise with the lyre. I would like to hear you play.
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yes i think so
i have no talent for archery
i make and use trap
so would be grateful to see use for arrows.
do you want to listen?
i can only play most simple beginner song
but sound of instrument is beautiful
we no have this LYRE in my world
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