on_holy_ground | If... [locked to those who know]

“If all that we are is wrapped up in our quickening, then what happens if there are none to receive that essence if our head is detached from our bodies? Is everything then lost? ”

“Nothing is ever truly lost, Violane.”

“Yet you have said that our memories, our thoughts, even the very soul of our being is a part of our quickening, and that all of that then transfers to our destroyer. However, if we were to die in some accident where no other immortal was nearby, then all of that would just disappear, would it not? All of our thoughts and feelings would simply cease to be, almost as though we had never even existed at all.”

“There are other ways to exist beyond the realms of death. The essence of who we are is not just in the quickening that resides in our bodies, but it is in the way that we chose to live our lives, and in the people that we choose to share that life with over the years.”

“But the people that we know in our lives will one day die as well, and then we will truly be forgotten.”

“Yes, but each life that we touch will touch another, and then that life will touch still another. It is like when the rain falls upon the river, and each drop creates it’s own set of ripples in the water. The ripples spread out, each touching another, until the entire surface of the water is interconnected. Even after the initial ripple has long since faded.”

“So, it is not what we are that matters, it is what we do that is important?”

“Exactly. What we pass on is not only in our quickening, but it is in the way that we choose to touch the world and the people around us. And it is in that way that all of us, mortal and immortal alike, are exactly the same.”