(crosspost)

[pilfered_words]

 (Responding to this post about Gen being saved by Hamiathes’s gift)

 

I remember the queen coming to me one night to offer me Hamiathes’s Gift, but I told her I preferred to die. I’d had enough of Hamiathes’s Gift and its rumored powers to confer immortality. There is something horrible and frightening and, I’d discovered, very, very painful about being trapped in this life when it is time to move on. 

 

Yup.