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[abgrund]

From: Hades
Date: March 22nd

As some of you may be aware, a large group of bees have moved into an abandoned temple in the Western District. Some bee sting injuries of children have occured.

I intend to take these bees under my protection and move them to my temple. If there are no objections, it will be done by the 25th.

[ Ain will be converting the bees to void-touched versions of themselves, and this will let him influence them to become calmer once they take up residence in his temple. They will still go about their foraging rituals but avoid stinging people, only flying away if disturbed. However, the honey they produce will become poisonous. This has been cleared by the mods o/ ]

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[abgrund]

I don't think you will.

[ Ain is serene, unperturbed. He has long been aware of his aberrant existence, and if someone has a pickle against him, they are free to bring them up to him.

Of course, if he's revealing things about himself to Shen Wei, he also expects some answers from the man in return. For now, he remains silent - you first. ]

[cloakedinruins]

I don't like to be rude.

[ He may be one of the most powerful beings from his race, but Shen Wei was not going to let it mean that he could be an ass about it. Sure he had his moments of arrogance, but that was something he felt due to him. Rudeness was not acceptable. ]

However... Some things cannot be asked without some rudeness. For instance, were you born with your abilities or did they come later?

[abgrund]

[ There are several ways he could answer this question. Several ways it could be interpreted in, even. However, Shen Wei did not have the context of his world like Add did. Some things have to be omitted. ]

I had it since the beginning. Though, I was made, not born.

[ Being born seemed to imply some sort of mortal, humanly connection. ]

[cloakedinruins]

Is there that much of a difference between made and born? One moment you do not exist. The next, you do.

[ True life was a bit more complicated than that, but where life began and how it was begun was the ages old question. Some believed in miracles, and some believed in science, but in the end something had to cause the first step for life to spread.

Shen Wei curled his hand and let his dark energy appear, the black shards mixed with bits of frozen matter in a tight, compact sphere. ]

My race always had an affinity with dark energy, and I was born capable of tapping far more energies than normal even for us.

[ He closed his hand, letting the energy settle back into his body as he does so. ]

[abgrund]

Being born implies you had parentage. Something birthed you. Being made means a creator rather than a mother.

[ Said evenly, as he regards the orb of dark energy in Shen Wei's hand. Similar in appearance to his own, but he could tell that its composition was not quite the same. ]

You are a prodigy, then. [ Amongst his race, huh... meaning that Shen Wei still had the benefit of compatriots to compare and learn against. The sublimation of knowledge from the void is much different from that sort of thing. ] Did you spend time with your people?

[ Because that's very much not the case for Ain himself. He closes his eyes and allows his illusion to dissipate somewhat, his appearance changing from human-like to bone-white and his eyes inset to black and green. ]

Perhaps you have heard of angels. Messengers of gods and servants to their will. That is what I once was.