Tale as Old As Time [Finished]

[CalamityJade]

Morden gave that a bit of analysis some thought. "That is quite a good deal to know...though that does throw some interesting ideas about yourself...it is, however, your turn." For someone that seemed to want to know a lot, he seemed quite comfortable playing this game rather than directly answering.

[accalia]

Echo looks startled at Vi's words but says nothing. He looks rather like someone trying to piece together a jigsaw puzzle where none of the pieces are the right shape.

[yamikuronue]

Vi grins, turning to Echo. "What is the earliest thing you can recall?"

[accalia]

"Pain..... lots of pain"

Echo mumbles the answer, but he doesn't look away.

[yamikuronue]

Vi's lunatic grin fades, as she pulls on a more somber expression. "Sorry."

[CalamityJade]

Morden frowned for a moment, but seemed to shake off whatever he was unhappy about. "You said that you were here to help Echo. While I could understand why someone would do so after learning of him, why is it that you chose now to do so, rather than an earlier time when he would have been by himself?"

[accalia]

Echo shrugs, and gestures to indicate that Vi should consider Morden's question Echo's turn.

[yamikuronue]

Vi nods. "Your suspicion is dead on: I only recently learned of him."

[CalamityJade]

That was a little unnerving. Where could she have gotten the information...and how could he ask so that she couldn't give a vague answer. "Close enough, I suppose."

[yamikuronue]

"My turn," she says, with a sly grin, turning to Echo.

"Who is Sylphia?"

[accalia]

Echo stays silent for a long time before speaking.

"This one doesn't know the truth. There are echos, and shadows.... This one...no, I remember her, and shadows of her.... but they are fleeting and indistinct. She is important, more important than myself.... and...... This- I don't.... I think I killed her..."

Echo falls silent for a long moment, then reaches silently for the glass in defeat. That's plainly all the answer he can give at the moment and he feels that it is insufficient

[yamikuronue]

Vi puts her hand over the glass. "I think I get the shape of it."

[accalia]

Echo shrugs and puts his hand down. He doesn't speak for a long moment, his face creased in pain as his scars rearrange themselves again. When he speaks his voice is full of emotions, each fighting to be expressed and most of them the darker ones.

"How did you know the name?"

[yamikuronue]

Vi stares at the glass for a long moment, marshaling her thoughts. Finally, she shakes her head. "You won't like the answer yet."

[accalia]

"This one thinks that statement will remain true through to the new moon...."

A statement that, nothing more.