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[bloodbathing]

Nice upgrade. 👍

[ … Yup. That's it. His plain-looking rock turned into an ~iStone~, and that's all Maine has to say. ]

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[bloodbathing]

Sucks.

[ Agent Maine: expert in commiseration. ]

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah

But what else is new here?

[bloodbathing]

Point.

[ That said: ]

Io's nice.

[eudaimonikos]

You know, it actually is!
I love the fireworks

[bloodbathing]

Same. Pools, too. 🏊‍♂️

[eudaimonikos]

I haven't actually tried those.
I think I know how to keep this body afloat in theory, but I've always just gone down to the bottom before.
Didn't need to breathe.

[read: Michael has never gone swimming and is also uncomfortable at best with like, swimming clothes]

[bloodbathing]

[ Give Maine a moment to process that. To remember the way he'd brushed off Michael's mention of "mortal people" back when they first met as something a crazy person would say. To think about the other person who said they'd been dead for ninety-six years… ]

You dead?

[eudaimonikos]

Immortal.
I can't technically die-die, which is less convenient than it sounds when your own kind wants to destroy you.
Some real elaborate punishments out there.

[bloodbathing]

[ Oh. Well. That sure is something. ]

What are you?

[ Besides "immortal," he means. ]

[eudaimonikos]

😈

For the record, I do not look like that.

[bloodbathing]

[ A pause. Then: ]

Imp?

[eudaimonikos]

....is that a demon? That's some kind of small demon, right?
I am very large and powerful.

[also exaggerating]

[bloodbathing]

Look human.

[ At least, he did when they met. ]

[eudaimonikos]

Most of us inhabit humanoid forms.
Apparently I need to eat and sleep sometimes now, since I got here.
It's extremely inconvenient.

[bloodbathing]

Not large form.

[eudaimonikos]

I was a lava monster for a few hundred years once.

🌋🌋🌋

[bloodbathing]

[eudaimonikos]

👉👉