If one were to ask Rui how many times his mind had been free from thought, he probably count the number on one hand.
It was rare.
It was rare, and this was one of those moments.
"Reincarnated."
Rui froze then and there.
His body.
Mind.
All of it seemed to freeze in time itself.
He was almost unable to parse what she had just uttered.
His name was something he hadn't given too much thought to in his life. He had initially had some trouble adjusting to it as the new label of who he was. After all, John Falken had lived with his name for nearly sixty years. That was an attachment that was not easy to rid.
By the time he got used to it, he didn't hold any curiosity about its etymology.
After all, it was three letters and two syllables.
About as basic as a name could get.
that illusion
whisper escaped
"…What did you say?"
is a very strange name to give to a person. Imagine naming your son 'reborn!' Very much unlike her.
was no realistic explanation for why she went out of her way to give her son a patently absurd name in the Silas Dialect if it
eccentric tastes and given her son some strange names, the probability that the name she chose would be exactly what his deepest secret in this world was
she know he
anything to do
how
by the second
"You seem alarmed."
Rui froze.
his
eyes bored into
that moment, he put aside his emotional turmoil, which she undoubtedly sensed as a Martial Sage. He
they swam around. "I wish she were here so that I could speak to
was the sincere
the context to understand what he meant or what he was referring to. And while it was
did she choose the Kandrian Empire over us? Why did she foresee her death yet refuse to take
more to his mother than he had ever suspected in his entire life. There were too many oddities for him to possibly shrug off, even if he ignored the elephant in the room, which indicated that his mother was very aware ahead of time
he wouldn't get any answers
that she, too, didn't really understand the mysteries that surrounded his mother shortly before her
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