<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/LxdM1cE.jpg?2)</div><strong>The Reaper</strong>(She/They)<br/><strong>Time:</strong><em>Year 1, Time of Open Paths</em><br/><strong>Tags:</strong><em>Aqua, Rime</em><br/><strong>Actions:</strong><em>Sharing</em><br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=337457.msg16048837#msg16048837">Quote from: Crensler on 05-12-2021, 01:42:04</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"You is bringing endings!"  She declared of the strange thing that had come for the Wise Old Elephant, giggling again as she swirled around oddly shaped being.  "You help Wise Old Elephant find her endings, and now she beginnings again!  Yay!"  No, she didn't fully understand, but if their friend was happy then there was no need to be sad.  "Rime help endings, too!  Cold comes, endings the warm times, but then the cold endings and the warm beginnings again!"  She spun around, small snowflakes flurrying in her wake for a brief moment as she giggled again.  "Rime is happy that Wise Elephant can be happy with beginnings again.  Is new friend happy, too?"<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The Reaper regarded the icy little spirit with patience and grace as it came to conclusions. It seemed to appreciate how she was trying to learn.<strong>"Yes, every ending is a new beginning."</strong>The skeletal figured agreed.<strong>"Or at least it can be."</strong><br/><br/>She seemed to think for several long moments about the next part of Rime's question. It was perhaps far deeper than the spirit realized.<br/><br/><strong>"No."</strong>She said finally, sadness creeping into her voice.<strong>"I am not happy."</strong>There seemed to be an invitation to ask why hanging in her words. And from the way she spoke one would suspect that unhappiness was not the natural state of this figure, even as intimidating and cruel as she looked.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=337457.msg16049075#msg16049075">Quote from: c0i9z on 05-12-2021, 06:30:51</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Memories..." Aqua said. "I never had much memories before, I don't think. I don't remember much from before I had a name, from before her..." She looked to the elephants. She couldn't even tell the old one apart anymore. Maybe... maybe she could go find her. Surely she could. But just as surely, she felt that this wasn't her place. The old elephant would go, and she would remain. "Thank you for telling me," she added to the reaper. "So much is different now. and I think I can't just only be happy now. But maybe that's not everything either?"<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong>"You are very welcome."</strong>The Reaper responds.<strong>"I know it may not seem so, but I like to think I am here to help."</strong>