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Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 1:52 pm
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Val studied her host's hands as he spoke, they were rough, callused from years of holding weapons, reins, doing hard work in a cold climate. After a moment she glanced to Sann, the Valkyrie was sat off to the side, watching the night. "I entrusted myself, my Mana with Sanngrigor, funny I did not go to my brother when the time came. Funny no one remembers me." She frowned a little. "I remember Gungnir." She admitted, looking to the spear. "The Valkyries are my strongest memory, the innocent spirits that lived in my fields. Battle and the great heroes that made up my army. I remember Nergal too of course, though his memory is in grey. Cold. You I remember as a shadow, perhaps as a child." She smiled. "I like children, even divine ones." She looked to him.
"I suppose it doesn't matter to anyone else who we are to each other. Or were. It's just a way of understanding ourselves."
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Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 3:04 pm
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"It is strange." He had to admit that much, to be honest. That she remembered little was one thing, but that he had little shards that revealed her own existence ? That seemed... Strange. It had taken jolting his memory as a gem, but he had remembered Nergal. No amount of jolting seemed to relent any true memory of her rather than her voice.
"What use would it be to truly change things now, even if it is rectifying it for the truth ? Not after so long, and not after that lie was all that I've known for all of one life and most of another. It is splitting hairs at this point, and I do not have the time to split hair." He sighed.
"I cannot give you a true answer beyond that Nergal wanted it the way it was..." That they were to be brothers. But why ? "And if I cannot get him to even do anything but exist in the basest sense, then I would be hard pressed to get us any sort of answer." There was an hint of bitterness in his tone. This was not what he had been meant for, not truly. The square peg did squeeze in the round hole, but it was quite uncomfortable, so to speak.
It was hard to imagine himself as a child, to be honest, though the mention seemed to bring all sorts of conflicting emotions in Ankou. "I had not thought I was cut out to be a father. Not with what kind of work I do... And not with how I had seen things unfold with Echo." She had more or less raised her children alone past the point where the Underworld was remade. "And yet it is exactly what happened. Cosine raises them and there is little I can do to help her... Too little. The harder I try to find a solution, the more it seems to elude me. I had thought I could simply take them with me. Make them discover the worlds along with me. Show them how beautiful things could be, but also show them the truths of the worlds in the only ways I know how. But when I spent most of my time in the Underworld... I cannot do that. Isidore might be able to tolerate it. Kyrie and Caelia... I do not think so. And I miss Cosine, I miss her so much... I told her I would be a father and I barely seem to be."
There was guilt here, not the raw and gaping wound it had once been, but a dull, familiar old ache that was constantly present. "And they grow fast, so fast... They are so clever in all the best and worst ways. You have seen that." Their so called grand plan, which honestly had been quite good, if they had just been a little bit stronger and asked for more help. "And I miss all this. Dad is always gone. Dad is always busy. Dad has to do the work of two gods and oh boy, does dad suck at it !" His tone had turned self-mocking, but he paused. His frustration certainly was not Val's fault. There was no reason for her to have to deal with it.
"And if they grew bitter like Akakios... I do not know how I could deal with it." There was a simple truth - he could not.
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 10:15 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:09 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:21 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:33 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:44 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 1:33 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:24 am
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 10:29 am
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:32 am
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:31 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:12 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 9:34 am
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