[Shou might get a quick mental glimpse of an older, white-haired woman with a beaky nose looking both pleased and regretful.]
:You too, Shou.:
[There's a brief silence on her end, then she snorts and Says,] :Oh, to the hells with it. Since you just gave me an echopulse concerning it, I might as well tell you it: I turns out did have practically the same name from my first life to my second, it's just this one, here and now, is evidently my third--which I've known since I knew I was a Companion, mind you, but we weren't supposed to let on that most of us used to be Heralds like the ones we partnered. Though I really don't know how we weren't caught at it with the way we barely changed our names from life to life--there's hardly any difference between Savil Ashkevron and Sayvil, besides the first version having a second part to it.:
[She exhales suddenly, blowing air through her nostrils.] :I didn't quite expect to say all, but I think I feel better now that I have. And a handful of us were full spirits, like what I was talking about. I just wasn't one of them.:
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:You too, Shou.:
[There's a brief silence on her end, then she snorts and Says,] :Oh, to the hells with it. Since you just gave me an echopulse concerning it, I might as well tell you it: I turns out did have practically the same name from my first life to my second, it's just this one, here and now, is evidently my third--which I've known since I knew I was a Companion, mind you, but we weren't supposed to let on that most of us used to be Heralds like the ones we partnered. Though I really don't know how we weren't caught at it with the way we barely changed our names from life to life--there's hardly any difference between Savil Ashkevron and Sayvil, besides the first version having a second part to it.:
[She exhales suddenly, blowing air through her nostrils.] :I didn't quite expect to say all, but I think I feel better now that I have. And a handful of us were full spirits, like what I was talking about. I just wasn't one of them.: