"You will. Of course you will." Mort smiles, squeezing Remi's fingers warmly between his own. "By my side does not mean dead. Just as death does not always mean killing." Despite Remi's role with Ludo all these years. "Take my daughter, for example - sweet Delphia soothes those lost souls caught between here and my realm. But she does not take them herself." Not unless it cannot be helped, in any case.
"And you - a man who has endured so much for so long - you who would stand in death's place for those you care for... I would never say it to dear Ludo, but I think you may have outgrown it." Still smiling, Mort's eyebrows raise as if Remi might be able to guess, now, at the deity's meaning. But just in case, he makes it clear: "I would like you to become one of my chosen, Remi."
"And you - a man who has endured so much for so long - you who would stand in death's place for those you care for... I would never say it to dear Ludo, but I think you may have outgrown it." Still smiling, Mort's eyebrows raise as if Remi might be able to guess, now, at the deity's meaning. But just in case, he makes it clear: "I would like you to become one of my chosen, Remi."
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