That's... concerning. Genuinely concerning. It would be wrong to say he was hoping that it had been some kind of fatal accident or some other random happenstance, because hoping for a specific cause of death just seems wrong, but he definitely was not expecting an implication that it was some kind of -- of what? An unnatural death. Was it the mansion spirits? If they can trap a god here they might also have the ability to kill someone otherwise immortal.
He doesn't have time to worry about that right now. Getting Claudius stable is his main priority.
"I take it you were close with him?" It almost feels like a sense of deja vu1. How many times in his life has he needed to console someone, because the Fates decided their friend's allotment was up long before anyone else expected it to be? There's different ways people handle things, of course, but this is a role Dionysus seems to have found himself typecast as, over the millennia.
1. Deja vu, or maybe just the mansion being wibbly wobbly timey wimey...
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He doesn't have time to worry about that right now. Getting Claudius stable is his main priority.
"I take it you were close with him?" It almost feels like a sense of deja vu1. How many times in his life has he needed to console someone, because the Fates decided their friend's allotment was up long before anyone else expected it to be? There's different ways people handle things, of course, but this is a role Dionysus seems to have found himself typecast as, over the millennia.
1. Deja vu, or maybe just the mansion being wibbly wobbly timey wimey...