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CLAIRE BENNET

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oh apparently now i'm gonna pass out again goodbye

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For once I'm not going to tease you for having an unfair advantage. Glad you're feeling better.

GN

[darkart]

Of course.

good morning

[pushfall]

Actually I am going to tease you.

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Get ready.

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Here it comes.

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Are you sure it's due to wizardkind being a little sturdier and not just attributed to you being a blockhead?

[darkart]

Yes, because my body can tolerate potions that regrow vanished bones without going into shock and killing me. Also without interference I'd live upwards of 200 years.

I would say being a professor also negates being a blockhead but some of my colleagues make me wonder.

[pushfall]

I don't think not being a blockhead and being a professor are mutually exclusive. You could live for 200 years?

[darkart]

Our headmaster is 103 and can still outclass me embarrassingly in a duel.

[pushfall]

That's someone I'd like to meet. Upwards of 200 is crazy when you compare it to, like, 80.

[darkart]

It's something that children coming in from non magical families find surreal, but it's always a delayed reaction in the face of magic at all.

[pushfall]

Do the children who come from non magical families end up living that long, too?

[darkart]

Yes.

[pushfall]

That's a little depressing.

[darkart]

I don't think so. I would like to see my students live for as long as they're able. Most don't. Our population has been halved and halved again by war.

[pushfall]

Has there ever been a time when your world hasn't been at war?

[darkart]

Plenty, if you don't count the times when non magical people have been trying to exterminate us.

[pushfall]

I guess the same could be said for the rest of the world, too.

[darkart]

Aside from colonists.

[pushfall]

This conversation got very off-track.

[darkart]

Longevity bothers you.

[pushfall]

I don't want to watch the people I love die. Sue me.

[darkart]

Because of your healing?

[pushfall]

Well I'm definitely not a vampire.

[darkart]

Vampires are babies who are far more fragile than they seem. Sunlight, honestly.

Within a community of people who share the same life expectancy, it's fine. 80 does not seem normal to me, it seems startling and short. To Nuala who has seen the Earth at its dawn, 200 is barely enough to count. We all have these differences. You are not alone in what's before you.