CCCXXIX.

[dark_butler]

One might have cause to wonder whether I am affected or not

Comments

[therippling]

This curse is stupid. I can't even tell if I'm affected or not.

[dark_butler]

I should think that by your standards most curses are stupid. Still, at least it isn't annoying for you?

[therippling]

No.

I'll look like this until I die anyway.

[dark_butler]

Some would say that there are worse fates than to eternally have the face of a lovely young woman.

[arthurhellsing]

That's a poetic way of looking at it.

[dark_butler]

I don't know how poetic it is, but it applies. I do not think of myself as the man with the wrinkles and high forehead, but he is as much me as the youth.

[arthurhellsing]

Of course he is, though as you can see not too many people have control of what age they show.

[dark_butler]

A strange world it would be indeed if more people did.

[favored_son]

Enjoying yourself?

[dark_butler]

As curses go, this one is rather innocuous. I count it a slight offset to the weekend's.

[favored_son]

I had heard you were inconvenienced. You're satisfied with the changes this curse has effected?

[dark_butler]

This one is not, as far as I can see, overly harmful to most citizens in any way but vanity.

Yes, I was somewhat inconvenienced by the curse, but that is over.

[tinyvampiregod]

This form of yours is appealing, Walter.

Even more so in contrast to the youth of my own. Something deliciously forbidden.

[dark_butler]

It is a form of role reversal in play, isn't it?

[tinyvampiregod]

Ironic and alluring.

How strong are you?

[dark_butler]

Stronger. Much. The power comes and my grasp of what it was to be human goes.

[banditfox]

Still as much a challenge to read as ever, but then I'm to understand that it hasn't been so very long since we spoke.

[dark_butler]

You do not perceive it that way?

[banditfox]

Thirty years, Walter. It's a long time when you measure by mortal standards.

[dark_butler]

Do you measure by mortal standards these days, Kurama?