Again, the Exarch is quiet for a long time before he speaks, and even then it seems he only answers after P'rihnn prompts him with a demanding "well?!"
"I am sworn to not tell the means by which I command the tower," he says, though there is an edge to his voice. It seems he does not like being pressed on the matter. "I'm not familiar with 'G'raha Tia', but... if you speak of the boy who once slumbered here, I fear he has long since passed on."
Wait... what? P'rihnn stiffens, and his ears flatten back. He had been happy to simply assume that the Tower was either unconnected to the one he knew, or else from some other point in time - after all, he could still see it in Mor Dhona, G'raha Tia surely sleeping well within! For him to have died...
"That can't be right!" he argues, his voice pitching a little higher and losing its gruff edge.
The Exarch looks to the floor for a moment. "There is some significant temporal discrepancy between the Source and the First... furthermore, whoever might have told you the Tower has been here for only a hundred years, I'm afraid they are quite incorrect. It is in truth closer to a thousand." He looks up again, hidden gaze now lingering on Felih. "Many, many years past a Mystel's natural lifespan."
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"I am sworn to not tell the means by which I command the tower," he says, though there is an edge to his voice. It seems he does not like being pressed on the matter. "I'm not familiar with 'G'raha Tia', but... if you speak of the boy who once slumbered here, I fear he has long since passed on."
Wait... what? P'rihnn stiffens, and his ears flatten back. He had been happy to simply assume that the Tower was either unconnected to the one he knew, or else from some other point in time - after all, he could still see it in Mor Dhona, G'raha Tia surely sleeping well within! For him to have died...
"That can't be right!" he argues, his voice pitching a little higher and losing its gruff edge.
The Exarch looks to the floor for a moment. "There is some significant temporal discrepancy between the Source and the First... furthermore, whoever might have told you the Tower has been here for only a hundred years, I'm afraid they are quite incorrect. It is in truth closer to a thousand." He looks up again, hidden gaze now lingering on Felih. "Many, many years past a Mystel's natural lifespan."