"... I understand more than I expected," Thanatos says quietly once Ryo stops. And Thanatos means it. What Ryo has told him puts into perspective why he's been so adamant about changing how Thanatos speaks and refers to himself. It's not the same. Ryo isn't a curse while Thanatos is Death. However, the connection is there. Among other things. And since Ryo hasn't made a move to push Thanatos away or sit on his own, Thanatos still doesn't let go.
Thanatos takes a breath, an all too human action, and then recites with easy cadence from having heard it many times:
"Sleep, king of gods, and men of mortal birth, sovereign of all sustained by Mother Earth; For thy dominion is supreme alone, over all extended, and by all things known. It's thine all bodies with benignant mind in other bands than those of brass to bind: Tamer of cares, to weary toil repose, from whom sweet solace in affliction flows. Thy pleasing, gentle chains preserve the soul, and even the dreadful cares of death control; For Death and Lethe with oblivious stream, mankind thy genuine brothers justly deem. With favoring aspect to my prayer incline, and save thy mystics in their works divine."
Thanatos finishes the first hymn and moves onto the second, yet his delivery of this hymn is nowhere near as smooth. He pauses at parts, second-guessing the wording, like he hasn't heard this nearly as much.
"Hear me, O Death, whose empire unconfined, extends to mortal tribes of every kind. On thee, the portion of our time depends, whose absence lengthens life, whose presence ends. Thy sleep perpetual bursts the vivid folds, by which the soul, attracting body holds: Common to all of every sex and age, for naught escapes thy all-destructive rage; Not youth itself thy clemency can gain, vigorous and strong, by thee untimely slain. In thee, the end of nature's works is known, in thee, all judgment is absolved alone: No suppliant arts thy dreadful rage control, no vows revoke the purpose of thy soul; O blessed power regard my ardent prayer, and human life to age abundant spare."
The recitation of the hymns have multiple purposes. One is to show how mortals view the twins so differently. The other is to give Ryo a moment to compose himself.
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Thanatos takes a breath, an all too human action, and then recites with easy cadence from having heard it many times:
"Sleep, king of gods, and men of mortal birth, sovereign of all sustained by Mother Earth;
For thy dominion is supreme alone, over all extended, and by all things known.
It's thine all bodies with benignant mind in other bands than those of brass to bind:
Tamer of cares, to weary toil repose, from whom sweet solace in affliction flows.
Thy pleasing, gentle chains preserve the soul, and even the dreadful cares of death control;
For Death and Lethe with oblivious stream, mankind thy genuine brothers justly deem.
With favoring aspect to my prayer incline, and save thy mystics in their works divine."
Thanatos finishes the first hymn and moves onto the second, yet his delivery of this hymn is nowhere near as smooth. He pauses at parts, second-guessing the wording, like he hasn't heard this nearly as much.
"Hear me, O Death, whose empire unconfined, extends to mortal tribes of every kind.
On thee, the portion of our time depends, whose absence lengthens life, whose presence ends.
Thy sleep perpetual bursts the vivid folds, by which the soul, attracting body holds:
Common to all of every sex and age, for naught escapes thy all-destructive rage;
Not youth itself thy clemency can gain, vigorous and strong, by thee untimely slain.
In thee, the end of nature's works is known, in thee, all judgment is absolved alone:
No suppliant arts thy dreadful rage control, no vows revoke the purpose of thy soul;
O blessed power regard my ardent prayer, and human life to age abundant spare."
The recitation of the hymns have multiple purposes. One is to show how mortals view the twins so differently. The other is to give Ryo a moment to compose himself.