that's how you get deathless.

[whoistorule]

Let me tell you a story. It is not a happy story. Like all great stories, it is filled up with sadness like an old dying man with vodka on a cold winter's night.

Once there was a girl who saw the world naked. She wished to be naked too. She would strip off her ordinariness like feathers, like a snake shedding its skin, so to expose her bones to the world. She did not realize bones are brittle things, nor that a heart so exposed is fast to wither.

What happened to this girl, you ask?

What happens to anything that lives?

Comments

[strongestcoward]

...Nakedness is so wrong! Put on some pants, story girl!

[whoistorule]

Not only have you missed the point, but it is my body.

If I wish to strip off clothes and relish the feeling of wind on my bare flesh, I will do so.

[strongestcoward]

I understood entirely! I am choosing to comment on the fact that you should all wear more pants.

[whoistorule]

Maybe I wish to clothe myself in the skins of beasts and wild things instead.

[strongestcoward]

Yes, yes, fine, just clothe yourself.

[tsars]

And what is your answer to that question, Marya Morevna?

SCREAMS AND THROWS HERSELF INTO THE FIERY PITS OF HELL

[whoistorule]

Must you answer a question with a question, Koschei Bessmertny?

You know how this ends.

asdfkjh sob EXCUSE THE LACK OF ICONS

[tsars]

[ Lightly: ] Perhaps it is not my question to answer. It is your story, too, is it not?

[ Again, questions, though he doesn't seem particularly apologetic about it. ]

jioewfjioew NOTHING TO FORGIVE oh my god i'm rolling around and crying ahhhhhhhhh

[whoistorule]

[ Her temper flares, just like that. ]

I should remind you that you wrote it. The letters that spell Marya Morevna were written by your pen; the lines of me are painted in your hand.

[tsarwars]

She dies, right?

[whoistorule]

She does indeed. Everything does, after all.

[tsarwars]

Aha ha! That's true. Even nations cannot run from Death forever, no matter how great they may be. [ just look at what happened to ancient rome! ]

[whoistorule]

You too, Пaпa?

[idkworldruler]

[Excuse him, he's going to be munching on some popcorn while listening to you.]

That's a pretty cool story bro.

[whoistorule]

And I didn't even get to the part where the devils crack open your head like an egg and suck our your soul.

[idkworldruler]

Meh, they already tried that, didn't end all that well for them. [Munch munch.]

[whoistorule]

A scrawny, meatless thing like you, it's little wonder.

[babyaliendaddy]

...You totally lost me at naked ladies.

Also, hel-lo. I'm Tucker.

[whoistorule]

It's a different sort of naked. The kind where you peel away your skin as much as your clothes.

I'm Marya.

[babyaliendaddy]

Well that sounds ....kinda gross and hot at the same time.

Sup Marya? How you doin'?

[whoistorule]

Dead.

And you?

[ofdrumsthesound]

It dies, eventually.

[whoistorule]

That is the answer, yes.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Thought so.

Not exactly cheerful, are you?

[whoistorule]

Cheeriness was wrung out of me long ago.