[There was something to be said for the similarities noted between what he heard of a past life he could no longer remember, never had known, and the reality of the life he had lived. The resemblance would have been uncanny if he believed every word Emet relayed, but even in this relatively calm moment between them, he held his suspicions, and rightly so. It was hard to take on blind faith the words of a man who had once destroyed everything the Exarch had ever known.]
[Still, what would it hurt to humor the possibility? His resolve had never been stronger, and his heart was sure and steady. The past was past, and whoever he had been once before might have been a friend to him, could they meet in another life or another way, but the circumstances of that past life were not the circumstances of his current life. What that man had done then, the shape of his heart and mind might not be the same if he had lived the same way G'raha Tia did. What G'raha Tia did in his own time might have been vastly different had he lived as his past self had.]
[More than that, his curiosity had the better of him, triggered by a small but significant revelation within Ascian's words, his tone, his question. The moment was telling, perhaps misleading, but an opening all the same. Emet-Selch had once known him, whoever the Exarch had once been.]
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[Still, what would it hurt to humor the possibility? His resolve had never been stronger, and his heart was sure and steady. The past was past, and whoever he had been once before might have been a friend to him, could they meet in another life or another way, but the circumstances of that past life were not the circumstances of his current life. What that man had done then, the shape of his heart and mind might not be the same if he had lived the same way G'raha Tia did. What G'raha Tia did in his own time might have been vastly different had he lived as his past self had.]
[More than that, his curiosity had the better of him, triggered by a small but significant revelation within Ascian's words, his tone, his question. The moment was telling, perhaps misleading, but an opening all the same. Emet-Selch had once known him, whoever the Exarch had once been.]
A shade of green, yes.