Enki nodded and idly picked up one of the books Suzaku had on the table, leafing through it while he spoke.
"Yeah. When the king accepts the kirin's pledge, the king's given immortality, so as long as he doesn't stray or gets his fool self killed, the king could live forever." Enki looked up suddenly and put the book down.
"Most don't make it past a hundred." He shrugged and tapped his fingers on the book he'd just put down. "There's always some sort of crisis around a few decades after the king ascends, and then around when the king would naturally have died."
There was no real explanation, and personally he didn't understand it. But then, as a kirin, he didn't have an 'end' to his lifespan, or even a natural lifespan at all. Maybe it was simply something he couldn't understand, the end-of-life crisis kings apparently had.
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Date: 2011-02-27 07:41 pm (UTC)"Yeah. When the king accepts the kirin's pledge, the king's given immortality, so as long as he doesn't stray or gets his fool self killed, the king could live forever." Enki looked up suddenly and put the book down.
"Most don't make it past a hundred." He shrugged and tapped his fingers on the book he'd just put down. "There's always some sort of crisis around a few decades after the king ascends, and then around when the king would naturally have died."
There was no real explanation, and personally he didn't understand it. But then, as a kirin, he didn't have an 'end' to his lifespan, or even a natural lifespan at all. Maybe it was simply something he couldn't understand, the end-of-life crisis kings apparently had.