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[aeterminus]

[The video crackles on and there's a somewhat familiar face that appears, though it appears somewhat bored. The username suggests that this is not Jacob Kane and instead someone that looks identical to him. Well, if he stopped attempting to look like a lazy college student, that is. When he speaks, it with a flat monotone that's devoid of any emotion.]

If there is anyone here who knows of the man named Jacob Kane, I would like to know his whereabouts as I've found something of his that I would like to return.

[He looks down briefly and something starts making almost angry hissing sounds, but it's muffled by something.]

Stop that. I know you can behave better than this. [He looks back up at the camera.] Dear brother, if you're receiving this, I found your shadow.

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[aeterminus]

Ah. In that, we are not. I have been dead for nearly twenty-eight hundred years.

[Thankfully, Abel is dead as a doornail and doing his job to make sure other people don't try to run away from death.]

My brother happens to be a notable exception to the rule of death. His time will run out eventually, but as he is now, it is meant to be that way.

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[deathkid]

If you're dead, then how...

[ nico's quickly doing the math in his head too. ]

Practically since the founding of Rome. That's not a coincidence, is it?

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[aeterminus]

I am an Enforcer. I make sure those who are meant to die actually die.

[Oh right, is he not supposed to spoil that? whoops, hopefully Cain doesn't get grumpy.]

Before the founding of Rome. As for coincidence, I do not know. I do not remember my life.

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[deathkid]

[ he doesn't know. well, that makes things hard. still, nico finds it a bit weird that a pair of twins from before the founding of rome are here and they can't die because one is already dead and the other cannot die... but more than that, something catches his attention. ]

You work for my father?

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[aeterminus]

If I do, I would not know. The Reapers lead the Enforcers and who they answer to is something they keep even from me.

[His world is weird and seemingly godless.]

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[deathkid]

[ nico doesn't know that. when he hears reaper, his thoughts go to thanatos. ]

It sounds like you do. [ a pause, and then he continues. ] My father is Hades, god of the underworld, ruler of death.

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[aeterminus]

[Abel immediately has to cover his mouth to hide the very slightest hint of a smile, which is possibly the most emotion anyone who is not Cain will see.]

That is an interesting coincidence. My designation among the Enforcers is Cerberus.

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[deathkid]

[ okay, that prompts a little chuckle. ]

You're a lot smaller than him, though. And I doubt you like rubber balls as much as he does.

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[aeterminus]

Woof. [If Cain ever found out, he would scream.] As far as I'm aware, there are no gods, merely the Reapers and those of us with Deathsight.

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[deathkid]

[ snort. ] The ability to determine when a person will die, right? Your brother tried to use it on me.

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[aeterminus]

That's correct. I doubt he was trying so much as he looked at you. We can't turn it off.

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[deathkid]

Let's just say he got a strange reading from me. Just like I could sense his strange aura.

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[aeterminus]

I see. It must be something that doesn't naturally occur where my brother and I are from. He's old enough to have seen every variation of a person's time that happen there.

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[deathkid]

Even a demigod?

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[aeterminus]

We don't have gods, so it's very safe to say that we don't have demigods.

[You know, besides themselves. Not that he knows this.]

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[deathkid]

That'll explain it then.