Heh. Sorry, I---I sometimes get all poetic about stuff like this.
[He's actually rubbing at his eyes a little.]
It just means a lot more to me than to most of the people I know. So many people take nature, animals, water... hell, even bug bites... I mean, they think it'll always be there.
For me it's not. For me, this place is, even if temporary, a gift. I don't care what happens to me here so long as I can talk to people who remember my name the next time I see them.
[He sighs.] I might as well tell you since you want a distraction from this whole psychic thing, Donatello.
I died back home. Cracked my head on a tombstone during a fight with a bunch of gorillas. Ended up making a deal with a demi-god in order to live but the deal was that I fought for her in the Land of the Dead. Sounds whacked, I know... but it's the truth. She muted my heartbeat so I might as well have no pulse.
In the Land of the Dead I battle against Ghosts and Echoes as a Night Arrow. Hell, the outfit looks like something out of a comic book I'll tell you that right now but since I got here, my link with Lil'l, the demi-god who saved my life, has been severed. Any kind of ability she had to converse with me is gone, even if the link is still open. That's why I heard you.
[He looks at Donatello.]
The deal back home is that I get a month off every five years and during that month I get to go back to the light in the Land of the Living. Unfortunately, no one knows who I am and no one is to remember. After that month is up, I go back to the Land of the Dead and anyone I met won't remember having seen me at all. Every five years it repeats.
I can't tell you how... how amazing it is to be able to meet people here and talk to them day in, day out... and for them to say something as simple as, "Hey, Michael!" To know they remember me... It's pretty damned wonderful is all I can say.
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[He's actually rubbing at his eyes a little.]
It just means a lot more to me than to most of the people I know. So many people take nature, animals, water... hell, even bug bites... I mean, they think it'll always be there.
For me it's not. For me, this place is, even if temporary, a gift. I don't care what happens to me here so long as I can talk to people who remember my name the next time I see them.
[He sighs.] I might as well tell you since you want a distraction from this whole psychic thing, Donatello.
I died back home. Cracked my head on a tombstone during a fight with a bunch of gorillas. Ended up making a deal with a demi-god in order to live but the deal was that I fought for her in the Land of the Dead. Sounds whacked, I know... but it's the truth. She muted my heartbeat so I might as well have no pulse.
In the Land of the Dead I battle against Ghosts and Echoes as a Night Arrow. Hell, the outfit looks like something out of a comic book I'll tell you that right now but since I got here, my link with Lil'l, the demi-god who saved my life, has been severed. Any kind of ability she had to converse with me is gone, even if the link is still open. That's why I heard you.
[He looks at Donatello.]
The deal back home is that I get a month off every five years and during that month I get to go back to the light in the Land of the Living. Unfortunately, no one knows who I am and no one is to remember. After that month is up, I go back to the Land of the Dead and anyone I met won't remember having seen me at all. Every five years it repeats.
I can't tell you how... how amazing it is to be able to meet people here and talk to them day in, day out... and for them to say something as simple as, "Hey, Michael!" To know they remember me... It's pretty damned wonderful is all I can say.