I'm sure. Even if it were able to revive, and it sounded like it couldn't, that can take hundreds of years. Not always, but with Cover it was different, its domain being life and all, although Descartes would have a better explanation for that, I only observed it secondhand...
[She pauses. Adjusts her glasses.]
I hope I'm not overstepping, I know curiosity about this kind of thing can be intrusive. But since you've talked about being involved in fighting the God-Hunters and their patron, and I've noticed something else about you -- well, that other thing might not apply to everyone, especially given the existing gulfs between your experience and mine, and between most people's and mine, for that matter, which is odd considering almost all the alternate dimensions I was privy to or witnessed before Ultern at least had the fossil pantheon or an idea of them, at least if they had Pokémon at all -- anyway! I was getting to something, wasn't I? Right. Active role in setting the world to rights, specifically metaphysically, and you look younger than a parent of a child that age would -- of course, there are plenty of mundane reasons that might happen, too, but given I'm in the same position, not aging, that is...
[She runs out of breath, takes a deep gasp, and takes off her glasses for a moment. Even if she still looks about 14, her expression is older.]
Forgive me for asking, but are you contracted with a god as well?
no subject
[She pauses. Adjusts her glasses.]
I hope I'm not overstepping, I know curiosity about this kind of thing can be intrusive. But since you've talked about being involved in fighting the God-Hunters and their patron, and I've noticed something else about you -- well, that other thing might not apply to everyone, especially given the existing gulfs between your experience and mine, and between most people's and mine, for that matter, which is odd considering almost all the alternate dimensions I was privy to or witnessed before Ultern at least had the fossil pantheon or an idea of them, at least if they had Pokémon at all -- anyway! I was getting to something, wasn't I? Right. Active role in setting the world to rights, specifically metaphysically, and you look younger than a parent of a child that age would -- of course, there are plenty of mundane reasons that might happen, too, but given I'm in the same position, not aging, that is...
[She runs out of breath, takes a deep gasp, and takes off her glasses for a moment. Even if she still looks about 14, her expression is older.]
Forgive me for asking, but are you contracted with a god as well?