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 had been
single whisper escaped
"…What did you say?"
to give to a person. Imagine naming your son 'reborn!' Very much
his mother knew that he was reincarnated. There was no realistic explanation for why she went out of her way to give her son
her son some strange names, the probability that the name she chose would be exactly what
she know he
she have anything to do with
know how or
questions flew through his mind by the second
"You seem alarmed."
Rui froze.
eyes met his grandmother's
into his with
emotional turmoil, which she undoubtedly sensed as a Martial Sage. He knew he could not hide it
around. "I wish she were
was the
because she lacked the context to understand what he meant or what he was referring to.
to her and understand her choices. Why did she choose the Kandrian Empire over us? Why did she foresee her death yet refuse to
many oddities for him to possibly shrug off, even if he ignored the elephant in the room,
he wouldn't
too, didn't really understand the
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