She nodded, slowly, stung more than a bit, but not so much by his words as by the truth of them, and the impossible choice she was faced with.

"I know. And that first part wouldn't be a problem, because any moment you're going to find the object that returns my memories and makes me a goddess again, and then I have forever, too."

She blinked at a sudden sting in her eyes, quite certain that she would never forgive herself later if she allowed it to be anything more than that.

"But then I won't be me. Not this me. I'll be her, and as far as I can tell she doesn't even have feelings, much less act upon them."