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[It’s not the answer she was hoping for, and she just barely smiles in response.]

That’s—

[Daisy sucks in a breath before finishing her sentence, the word feeling foreign.]

Good.

What kind of business did you two do?

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Oh, well...

[ Clearly, he hesitates to answer, but he does trust Daisy, and he knows he doesn't need to be as wary of people in this world, who come here with all sorts of different powers. ]

It may sound strange and.. unbelievable, but he granted me immortality. Well, I guess his sister did, but he was part of it. All on the condition that I check in with him every one-hundred years.

[morethan084]

[The word ‘immortality’ is an immediate punch to the gut as she’s reminded of someone.

Andy.

Hob explains how it happened, but it takes Daisy a moment to respond.]

Granted you-? Are they vampires?

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[ Hob wonders if something he said may have bothered her, but she seems bothered by a lot this evening. ]

No. [ He actually laughs a little, since Morpheus kind of resembles a vampire. ] They're like gods. Well, even greater than gods, I think.

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Greater than a god?

[Daisy asks, sounding doubtful.]

Does that make you one too?

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God, no.

[ Hob is quick to deny that idea. ]

I'm just a man... who happens to not die. I can't do the things they do, or even the things you do.

[morethan084]

[Daisy looks off to the side for a moment as memories bubble to the surface. Personal conversations that she's had with Andy, about what immortality is like for her.]

That sounds lonely.

[She says, sympathy seeping into her tone.]

All of the people you know, eventually dying, and you can't be there with them in their final moments. Because if they're lucky enough to live to an old age, they would notice that you don't age.

[And because maybe he needs to know to understand...]

I knew people like you.

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[ Hob shrugs slightly. ]

It has been, at times, but not always.

[ Despite being immortal, it's impossible for him to cut himself off from others. What's the joy in living like that? ]

I've told some people before. Those I wanted to spend my life with. Unfortunately, they didn't live to an old age. If they had, I would have done anything possible to stay with them. Take care of them somehow.

[ He'd just have to figure that out without other people catching on. But hearing she's known an immortal before gets a look of surprise. ]

You have? What happened to them?

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You loved them.

[It's not posed as a question, because it's obvious he had. Why else would he risk everything to stay with them?]

What happened to them?

[Besides the fact that they obviously died young.]

I don't know. We lost touch along the way.

[Which is not the truth, but she doesn't want to stray too far from the intended topic.]