We don't really have either down here, as I'm sure you can imagine. Day or night, that is. ...Or time, really. I'm sure it does pass, it's just...
[He waves his hand nebulously.]
Sort of there, I suppose? Life on the surface must be so strange by comparison. The whole world turning light or dark around you, and not because of anything you did but just because that's how it is? It must really be something! I saw the sun once, coming up over the ocean. I think I looked at it too long, it made my eyes hurt.
[It's actually hard to tell if he's this talkative about the surface because he's genuinely excited about it — which he is — or because he's avoiding answering the question about Achilles, which he...also is.]
...Achilles signed a contract with my father. He stands guard in our House...and trained me, I don't know why. Father wanted it, I suppose. Something to try to get some worth out of me, maybe.
[He shrugs.]
And he got something for it, in return. Elysium...wasn't what he wanted.
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[He waves his hand nebulously.]
Sort of there, I suppose? Life on the surface must be so strange by comparison. The whole world turning light or dark around you, and not because of anything you did but just because that's how it is? It must really be something! I saw the sun once, coming up over the ocean. I think I looked at it too long, it made my eyes hurt.
[It's actually hard to tell if he's this talkative about the surface because he's genuinely excited about it — which he is — or because he's avoiding answering the question about Achilles, which he...also is.]
...Achilles signed a contract with my father. He stands guard in our House...and trained me, I don't know why. Father wanted it, I suppose. Something to try to get some worth out of me, maybe.
[He shrugs.]
And he got something for it, in return. Elysium...wasn't what he wanted.