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7th rise of the phoenix ஜ Voice / Action for Spades

[His voice is heavy and a bit hoarse but still easy to understand. He has yet to hit the bottle today, but it won't take him much longer to do so.]

Soon it will be September again. Hn, when people started to vanish I thought there would be only a few of us left to see a second autumn in this world.

[Of course, that refers only to those who were the first to arrive to this world. Unfortunately he never doubted that there would still be a lot of people trapped, just... Not the same people for so long.]

Have any of you changed since you arrived here? No matter how long you have been here... Ever wonder what your people would think of you if they saw you here?

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I would have to say... four hundred years give or take?

Huh...

[Didn't expect that but it's not as if it's the first time.]

Still remember all the details of the pirate life? You have a good memory.

Well I'm not old and forgetful yet.

You don't have to be old to forget things. I'm not that old and there are things that I have trouble remembering from my past.

Then again, maybe it's because of how often people have played with my memories in general.

[At the very least it certainly didn't help.]

That... well, that could certainly influence things.

And I may not always remember what I had for breakfast last month, but I certainly haven't forgotten skills that I depended on to keep me and my ship afloat, or what brought those skills about.

So are we talking about skills in general or only physical ones? Bodies seem to remember more than minds do at times, after all.

Both, certainly. I sailed long enough to acquire plenty of different skills.

Long enough, like hundreds of years?

[There's light amusement in his voice, after all, hearing how long it has been since this guy was a pirate makes him doubt that now he's referring to just a decade.]

Off and on.

[But he's not denying it.]

[He definitively isn't.]

I guess being a pirate for so long without a rest would get boring. Have you done or being involved with anything here that you regret? Or at least that you would have prefer to not happen.

That, and I had a number of duties to attend to back home.

Here? Not that I can really think of. I'll admit that that thing with people being reverted back to childhood was a little embarrassing.

Hn... Are you a god or something? ... Nah, if you were a god you wouldn't worry about your duties.

[Only Athena did and he's not sure if she counts or how far she counts.]

Embarrassing? Just because you were turned into a little brat? Did you have your memories or were they gone?

Oh heavens no, nothing that grand. I'm a nation.

I didn't remember a thing. Was convinced I'd been kidnapped by Vikings or their like.

I wouldn't say that a god is grander than a nation, but that's just me and the gods that I know are quite disappointing.

[So he's probably somewhat biased.]

Well, you weren't wrong by much. Half of my crew suffered that too, though some remained their sane mind despite their size.

You've met some personally?

[Curious nation is curious.]

I rather pity the members of my crew who weren't effected, actually. I may have been a bit of a brat as a child.

I work for one, supposedly. Does the name Athena ring any bells?

[Vikings were a thing in his world as well after all, but that could be just a coincidence. Or the other could just not know the Greek gods.]

If being a brat was the biggest problem they should have been fine. Unless by "been a bit of a brat" you mean things like setting the ship on fire.

[And he probably sounds more amused by the thought than he should be.]

I've heard of her of course, but she wasn't one of my people's gods.

Ah no, I might not have wanted to be on the ship, but it's better than being in the water. Drowning's a rather miserable experience.

I'm almost tempted to say that they were lucky then.

[Athena wasn't the worst deity, but the rest of the Greek gods definitively left a lot to desire. Both in reality and in the stories that ended being passed around.]

Then I'm sure they were fine and don't need any pity.

If they're anything like our fae, I'll say one batch is more than enough.

[He loved his fairies dearly, but Arthur knew how to work with them. And how dangerous they could be if you didn't.]

Thankfully, I didn't shoot any. The pity is that me bow vanished when I returned to my adult self.

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