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 Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:05 pm
 "You could say that.... everything is alive, in a way." The god mused. "In that somewhere, there was one a force behind it... and might even be, again." Well, that was the simple way to see it, at least.
"That is still serving, in a way... Even if you're helping people rather than being at a deity's side. You'd kind of... help make focus the connection ? Or focus the prayers so that we can hear them." It was evident now that Akakios... actually wasn't certain of what he was talking about. He'd never given that much thought before this, actually... He'd been content with just writing and doing whatever it was that he wanted. He'd never sought out followers before.
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:00 am
"I suppose." She said softly, looking over the graves that lay before them. The dead made for peaceful company. Most of the time.
"Maybe I'll do that. Encourage people to grieve, help them to move on." She picked at a stray thread on her hand made skirt. "I think I'd like to talk to your uncle perhaps. About the spirits. I'd like to learn more about the dead, about what happens to them."
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:40 pm
A small smile did draw itself on his face - of course he liked that. Would that made Grace his' ? Through, it was sightly odd to think of mortals as actually belonging to anyone.
"It's a very important thing, to grieve properly. To respect both the deceased and those who are left behind. Mortals do not always understand that death is not the end. To suffer too little is disrespectful to the dead. To suffer too much means destroying yourself." He moved to tuck the wildflower behind one ear, letting it rest on top of the fine lace of his veil.
He'd seen it, with how the gods grieved. They did it in a way so different than mortals, and he wasn't sure Grace would actually understand.
"I could try to pin him down for you, maybe. He isn't around all that often, but I do see him from time to time." Would Ankou made the time ? Well, with him involved, he hoped so.
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:53 pm
Grace nodded in agreement.
"I think my parents have a good balance. They remember rather than grieve I suppose. Honour the dead." She nodded as he offered to gain an audience with his Uncle. "Though, maybe you can teach me all about it? Now you're all grown up."
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:11 pm
"It is good to grieve, in itself. It is a part of healing... Bottling the feelings up is bad... As is getting consumed and paralyzed by it." It was a fine balance that not even he was able to walk to perfection, sometimes. "Honoring the memory is also important."
"While that's flattering..." He said, amused. "I know about writing, about the feelings involved thanks to the closeness I share with my sister. I know how to cause, and... to heal. To give and take away." That was right, wasn't it ? Hadn't that what he had done with Tian Yue ? Force him to face it, process it, then took it away ?
He wasn't sure exactly why, but that felt right. "But im not exactly sure how the whole thing works, beyond that. I know the dead are taken to the Underworld, my father judges them, and they might be reborn, eventually... But, well, that's about all I know."
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:51 am
"Oh. Well, that is still interesting." Lament was an important part of the process of death. A very human process. Or mortal process, as now she knew there were far more species than human out there.
"I think that in order to understand mortal reaction to death, feelings are very important. More important than the mechanics of things perhaps?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:30 am
"All of it is important, really. Everything works together in it's own way." That much he knew. Every bit of the process was important, every part a step, a cog that worked with the others.
Until eventually those parts changed, with the loss of the deities that dictated those forces. It made him wonder, quite suddenly, if the loss of one hadn't hastened the fading of the others.
Disconcerting, that.
Through, that wasn't what she meant, wasn't it ? "On a mortal perspective, through... I figure you'd be right." He admitted.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:14 pm
"Of course." Grace replied with a bit of a grin. "I am a mortal after all." it was in the label after all. Mortal. She had an expiry date. It might be in forty years, it might be tomorrow. You never knew.
"Do you know much about reincarnation?" She questioned. "My parents are ... no, were Catholic. They didn't believe in such a thing, but if it exists then it's possible my brother and sister could be reincarnated?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:22 pm
"Reincarnation does exist. There is a deity of Rebirth, through I've only seen him once." Or there was. He'd seen the firebird dance and burn in the flames, even if he hadn't understood back then. But both his father and uncle seemed pretty damn convinced that Byrne wasn't gone, even through he had never seen him again. He just figured the adults knew better.
"It's definitively possible, through.... I don't think they would remember who they were, in the life before. It's pretty rare." It did made him wonder why it happened sometimes, and most of the time it didn't.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:27 pm
Grace nodded. Yes, she had learned a bit about reincarnation from books and in the school that Cosine had set up. It was interesting.
"It doesn't seem fair. That they can be out there, in the world but we'll never see them again. Or we won't know if we do. Though I suppose it's not them, not really. It would be a new life."
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:39 pm
"That's right. It is a new life, just the soul is the same. They might very well be nothing like you remember - different races, gender, personalities... Why would a new being end up stuck with the memories of someone else ?" He paused a moment, as if musing on something.
"Beside... Well, both you and I have a base understanding of this. But imagine if you didn't understand, if you couldn't see the dead, and one day, say twenty years from now, someone showed up out of the blue claiming to be your dead sister. Wouldn't that freak you out ?"
He was genuinely curious, really.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:48 pm
Grace smiled a little, though she supposed in reality the situation would be no fun at all.
"No I wouldn't like that very much. I doubt I would believe them for a start. I've grieved, I've accepted their death." She looked down at her hands. "They've moved on, so have my family. Plus the world would be a rather boring place if it were just the same people dying and being reborn."
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:58 pm
"Well, there's the reason, most likely." But now he was wondering how it had been decided, how the 'system' had been made. Had Rebirth decided to do it this way ? What had been his reasoning, how did he see it ?
...Really, he was just over thinking now, and he shook his head. Really, was there any way to truly sate his own curiosity ?
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:05 pm
Grace watched him think. She was endlessly curious too. Her parents had always encouraged her to ask questions, to explore possibilities.
"Well thank you Kios, this has been enlightening." she glanced up to the sky and breathed the cool air in. "I suppose I had better get back home, they'll send out a search party if I am gone too long."
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:23 pm
"It's no problem." Really, he saw no reason to keep information to himself, at all. Part of his naiveté, perhaps. "We certainly wouldn't want them to think I've kidnapped you, wouldn't we ?" That... was more his father's thing, if mortal myths were to be believed. How strange !
"Or your father to show up with a shotgun." Mortal fathers did that... right ?
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