[ Huh. That's not usually the reaction he gets to that. Ephemera blinks, not entirely sure how to take the—sympathy? ]
Just Ephemera. It's fine. Just a thing. It grew on me.
[ For a while he'd liked the irony, because he'd survived pretty much everything the universe had thrown at him and that made him the opposite of temporary, didn't it? Right up until he lived and his people didn't, and then it started feeling like a curse. But that's not something you explain to a stranger, so he doesn't. ]
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Just Ephemera. It's fine. Just a thing. It grew on me.
[ For a while he'd liked the irony, because he'd survived pretty much everything the universe had thrown at him and that made him the opposite of temporary, didn't it? Right up until he lived and his people didn't, and then it started feeling like a curse. But that's not something you explain to a stranger, so he doesn't. ]