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[flatteries]

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Is that what happens when you get very old?

You get tired?

[ It's not like Inigo knows, being so young. And he doesn't even know that many relatively old people, considering just how much death there had been in his world. Not much time for most people to actually grow old in the first place. He's hardly ever seen a natural death before - hence why this topic is so new to him, and a little intruiging.

Though he does want to be gentle about it. It's her life they're talking about, after all. Inigo may be nosy, but he wouldn't want to be cruel about it. ]

[heartofthestar]

Far older than you can imagine. Without rest, in constant pain. Living for a day that you believe will come, but needing to prepare in case it never does.

[flatteries]

That sounds.. bad.

[ To put it incredibly mildly. Inigo is making a concerned face as he's writing. ]

I thought that living for a long time was supposed to be a good thing.

[heartofthestar]

Say rather, living as long as you wish to is a good thing.

I do not complain. My life was full of joy and wonder, even through all those years.
But I will also not say I was ready for some time, to set down my burdens and walk unto the end.

[flatteries]

Well, if you got what you wanted, then I'm.. glad, I suppose. Even though it all sounds a little difficult and painful to me.

But I suppose I'm much too young to understand.

[ Despite being someone who has already decided to face his own end a long time ago now. ]

[heartofthestar]

Life is a little difficult and painful, yet such joy comes from it as well. It matters not how much time you have, but what you do with the time you have.