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"We could start getting up early, you know like old couples, and have tea and toast, the occasional guilt-filled cup of milky coffee. We could watch the afterbirth of sunrise together."

Echo helped Zeus in a sexual conquest. Zeus' wife Hera found out and was, reasonably, angry with both Zeus and Echo. Hera cursed Echo to speak only the words she heard - constantly parroting and never able to express herself or create new words and phrases. Echo, one day, fell utterly and truly in love with Narcissus. Yet, Narcissus' obsession with himself left Echo's love relentlessly unrequited. Echo, in sadness, slowly withered under the shadow of her unanswered love, until all that was left was her voice - endlessly repeating that spoken to her. It was for lack of even an echo of love that Echo was diminished.