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 Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:13 am
Aragost nodded. "They are a race short in stature - the tallest being only your grandmother's height - but strong of build. They are a very strong and proud race ... too proud. Their pride led to their destruction and near extinction. Their lifespan was once much greater than it is ... at the beginning, they could live for up to two thousand years: now, they are fortunate indeed to make it only to five hundred."
He paused, letting out a soft sigh. "They are what one might refer to as a b*****d race," he murmured. "They were never intended to have been created, and for that reason they are the cause of so much disharmony and strife in our world. They are not like humans, nor like elves ... they have not the favour of the Valar. Nor are their thoughts like ours. I am not saying they are animals ... despite how their actions seem. But they are not like us."
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:33 pm
Miyu blinked she couldn't imagine at race not meaning to exist, then again she didn't think a creator would not mean to create. She wondered how that would feel like, to know in history you weren't meant to exist... that must be awful.
"That must be hard," Miyu murmured, "To know you're not supposed to be here. To not have a blessing of a creator."
After all, what would that do to her if Second angels and Second humans were not supposed to exist, if she didn't have goddesses to talk to?
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:07 pm
Aragost nodded. "The dwarfs have always had a hard life," he murmured, "but they deal with it in a bad way. They blame us, the elves, for their misshapenness ... we were created by Eru, the One, in physical perfection. The dwarfs are a clumsy creation of one of the Valar ... they do not have souls, as do we elves and the humans. They live, and they die, and they simply cease to exist ... the elves are bound to this world, to Arda, to live and die, and be reborn again to it. The humans are here but a short span ... fifty or sixty years, and then their souls depart to live eternally with our maker. Yet they do not ever cease to exist."
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:34 pm
Now that brought up a question that Miyu had never thought about for herself. What happened to Seconds when they died? Did they stay with the Goddesses or were their souls reshaped into another vase.
What would happen to their vase if they died?
"That's sad...." Miyu murmured, "That must make it scary, to not exist after you die."
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:24 pm
Aragost had to think about that.
"That is actually one aspect I had never thought of before," he admitted quietly. "For me, death has always had the promise of rebirth ... I had never taken the time to think about what it must be like to face non-existence."
Then again, he had never really thought about death either - not, that is, until he had to face the Morgawr, and had to face the possibility of leaving behind all of the people he had grown so fond of.
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:01 pm
Personally Miyu thought it would be hard to imagine, to be able to do all these things, have all these memories and suddenly.. it's not there, there would be nothing.
Wouldn't that be very scary?
"Well... most wouldn't," Miyu murmured, "Most would find it very depressing."
Which meant she should too now that she thought about it, but the idea of death was so... well foreign to her and no Second ever talked about dying of old age or dying period.
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:44 pm
Aragost turned his head towards Miyu, as if he were looking at her, though of course he could not see her.
"Perhaps," he suggested softly, seeming, as always, to know what she was thinking, "it would be a good idea for you ... or someone of your kind ... to ask your goddesses about what happens to you after death ... at least then you would know."
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:12 pm
Miyu blinked up at Aragost, that was a very valid thing to ask, though a bit morbid. She couldn't help but be curious though, as far as she knew Seconds didn't age, but she was sure things happened.
There were vases after all that never had any Seconds.
"Maybe I will.... and then tell Uncle Yuki since he writes it all down," Miyu murmured thoughtfully, "He's always writing down about us and what he finds out."
Of course it was easy for him, because he had a lot of siblings to choose from.
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:50 pm
"That does indeed sound like a wonderful idea," Aragost smiled warmly down at her as they left the cover of the trees and ended up in the bright sunshine. He could feel the difference immediately, and he turned his face towards the sun, basking in its warmth.
"Now," he said softly. "We are going to the house that is taller than the others. Do you see it?"
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:26 pm
Looking beyond, Miyu could indeed see the taller of the houses that were there.
"I see it," she smiled it wasn't that hard to see after all.
"Will they be there?"
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:22 pm
Aragost nodded. "They should be finishing lessons," he murmured, turning and leading Miyu in that direction. "It is about that time ..."
Rhea's lessons didn't last nearly as long as they had used to; she was after all a young woman now, and she didn't need as much instruction. More just supervision by this time.
Rhea meanwhile was looking out the window. She had picked up Aragost's presence - not only by sensing his magic, but also because she had started to suddenly know things she ought not to have known. A gift she couldn't help but pick up from him, until she deliberately stopped it.
"Aragost is here," she murmured to Cindy, still looking out the window. "And Miyu is with him."
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:48 pm
Cindy blinked as she looked out the window, she shouldn't be so surprised by this statement, after all it was to be expected with someone of her gift.
"Is that so," Cindy murmured, "Then they are probably here for a visit."
She looked back at Rhea and inquired if perhaps they should end their lesson, they had done... well what they had been doing since Rhea began to grasp her abilities.
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:56 pm
Whisper, who always spent her days at Rhea's side, except when she was napping, padded over to the window and peered outside, careful not to knock over any of Cindy's plants.
"Looks like," she murmured softly, turning and sitting on her haunches, watching the two girls.
Rhea smiled at Cindy, closing herself off to Aragost's magic, and nodded. "I'm sure Miyu must be eager to see you again," she smiled. "It's been a long time - for you more than for her, but still, a long time for her as well, I'm sure."
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:15 pm
Cindy nodded at this and rose from her seat. This was true after all, especially since she hadn't been around during the holidays, having left so quickly.
"It has been a long while," Cindy murmured, "Come on, you haven't seen Miyu since the last time she was here as well."
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:18 pm
Well that part was a bit obvious, and Rhea giggled softly as she rose to her feet to follow Cindy to the door.
"She's different than the last time she was here," she smiled at Cindy. "I'm not sure why yet, but she's different. Changed."
Of course it had been a while.
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