"Doesn't work like that. There isn't a count down the moment you join. Some people go fast, some last decades. Others can ignore the calling for a long time, past when their friends went mad from it."
Pure random chance, when it would come for you. All the more reason to volunteer to be the one to strike the archdemon, to go down in history as The Good Warden that saved the world instead of one slipping into madness or, maybe worse, looking back at your life at 80 and thinking there had been time to have both worlds. If only you'd tried.
"But how much time does anyone have? Most we can hope for is dying for something."
It was, perhaps, a slightly awkward position, but he'd let his hand settle there, palm pressing just under the wound, as he talked. Not moving to be the one to break away this time.
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Pure random chance, when it would come for you. All the more reason to volunteer to be the one to strike the archdemon, to go down in history as The Good Warden that saved the world instead of one slipping into madness or, maybe worse, looking back at your life at 80 and thinking there had been time to have both worlds. If only you'd tried.
"But how much time does anyone have? Most we can hope for is dying for something."
It was, perhaps, a slightly awkward position, but he'd let his hand settle there, palm pressing just under the wound, as he talked. Not moving to be the one to break away this time.