@featherysnake continued X.
He can't help himself, but he manages to at least hold back. He snatches but a single petal and shoves in between his teeth with a idle hum.
"That's okay, I didn't expect you to. I don't remember anything either. If someone did, it was padre Ometeotl, but we can't truly ask them anymore."
Not anything else by the matter. Tezcatlipoca glances up to the sky as if he could see their creator eternally sleeping in Ilhuícatl Omeyocán. But he can't, and only the fifth sun greets him, making him squint his human eyes even behind the sunglasses with its brilliance.
"I believe I've seen it, the way it was before the Crystal Spider. In Sem's eyes." He states then, gesturing with his hand to stop her from saying anything else until he's done, "He's a gate beyond this universe... 14 billion light years away. That's more than enough to reach that dead celestial body back as it was. First time was when he summoned me, I'm the smoking mirror and yet— I'm the one who saw something reflected back. Maybe that's why I fell for him, hm? Felt like my own heart was being ripped out of my chest and presented to Huitzilopochtli, but I still wanted to see it again. The second time was when we first laid together, and the last when I buried my own hand in his chest and ripped out his heart. It wasn't memories but... Glimpses, of a desolated planet with white earth, purple skies and red rivers, and creatures humans would deem monstrous. Does that stir anything?"