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 Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:12 pm
Ami smiled, genuinely happy to tell her story. "Remember the labyrinth?" She gave a tiny laugh and said, "Well, you probably don't WANT to at this point." They'd been in and out of that place, shot by so many traps, fallen in so many pits- even Ami wasn't sure she wanted to memories at this point.
"After that endless corridor with the quicksand... It opened up into this huge room- I mean really huge!" She gestured with her arms, just so Otto could get the picture. "It was right on top of a volcano. We walked out to this center, it had all these ... objects."
Ami rolled a hand, skipping through the time. "Wilson took a wooden staff, I took this orb ... it was huge." She dug out her phone and pulled up a picture of the orb before her runicization. "We had to reforge them to be suitable for the island, but ... I did some research on the orb beforehand." She leaned a little closer, lowering her voice. "I think ... it was an axis, belonging to Coeus. A titan, Otto." She sighed, leaning back. "It sounds so stupid when I say it though. Gods were fairytales for the Greeks- they used them to explain phenomena ... they weren't ... they weren't real, right?"
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:20 pm
Yeah. He really didn't want to remember. Part of his recent insomnia stemmed from that horrible period of adventures.
Now Otto was a bit jealous. Did they all get cool s**t for it? Damnit. Were he a better man he'd not have let his disappointment show. But he so did. So they got orbs from Titans? Geez. That was just so cool.
Her question had him cocking a brow at her like she was suddenly very stupid. "Well, Ami. Ghosts, goblins and vampires aren't real either, right?" Except they so were. "It just takes a special sort of someone to see things for what they are."
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:59 pm
Ami shook her head. She was too old to believe in fairy tales. Otto had a good point, but Ami was the too realistic for that. She wouldn't believe it unless they walked in front of her and told her themselves. Maybe it was the Gods', maybe it wasn't. The point was that it was Ami's now.
"Point taken, point taken," she said, ruffling his hair affectionately.
She unlatched herself from Otto and stood up, grinning somewhat lightly. "Stay put, okay?" Was she somewhat excited about using it like this? Somewhat nervous, too. Hopefully she wouldn't mess it up somehow- after all, Otto still wasn't back at 100%. The last thing she wanted to do was hurt him somehow.
She stepped back from Otto, well away from his bed and more towards the door. For a moment, nothing seemed to happen, but then slowly, her braid lifted, followed by the rest of her. Objects in Otto's room would slowly float, as though they were on the moon. She looked a little unsteady, but then looked over to Otto and smiled. "It's a bit ... I haven't quite figured it out yet."
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:18 am
Otto probably should have reminded AMi that he'd fought a titan the size of Texas once. Oh well. Hair ruffles for the win.
Otto nodded, watching as Ami moved to the opposite end of the room. A first he was wondering if this was some sort of croc. One of those 'I can't do it if you're looking' things. But eventually, things around her began to levitate.
Otto's expression turned to some form of surprise, lifting his posture from the slouching he'd been doing. "Woah... that's pretty cool."
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:38 pm
Ami lips squeezed into a tight line as she concentrated, willing the orb to put her down gently, along with Otto's belongings. That was pretty much all she could do with it at the moment, little levitating tricks like something from David Blaine.
"It's a work in progress," she said, striding back to the bed and curling back up with Otto. "I think there's something more to it, I'm just not getting it- you know?" Indeed, it seemed as though the orb had more power than it would allow her to use. Maybe that was just her imagination though.
"I guess its waiting for me to prove myself, just like you." She carefully wrapped the chain back around her belt, tucking it back into its safe place. "I think ... its good. It feels like a success in our mighty history of failures." She was of course referring to Red, the insanity phoenix, the invasion- it seemed nothing ever went right for hunters, actually.
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:16 pm
"I'm kinda curious to know what it'll do if you can figure it out." Otto murmured in return, gaze distant as he thought about it.
Prove himself, huh? They both were trying, in some way. How he did it he wasn't sure. Jus keep trucking until an opportunity arose. He didn't want to just fight blindly until his life line gave out. He didn't want to be a small blip on the radar. He wanted to mean something to this place, or to someone. Not like his life in Louisiana, stuck in a small town where his life was stuck on the train tracks; only one path to go, and bumpy all the way.
"There sure are a lot of those.." Otto muttered grimly. Failures were the foundation of Deus. He just had to remind himself he was saving the world, even if he didn't much care for the world anymore. He hadn't cared much for it before Deus either, though. So he fought for himself, and for his friends he'd made. And for the small, minimal amount of people he left behind in a small town, in a southern state.
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 2:08 am
Ami smiled and said, "Then you can hold confidence that your failure is one of many, and certainly won't be the last." She meant that in a good way, really, she did. If Otto messed up, others would too.
She wanted to assure Otto in a better way, tell him that he was her little deathy, but those words would never cross her lips. Yes, their friendship was a strange unspoken bond, without particularly confirming how the other felt at any give time, except at breaking points.
Instead, all she did was fix his floppy bangs, pulling them out of his face. His face was feeling a little warmer, but it could have been anything. In fact, it could have been her imagination altogether. Either way, she dutifully said, "Well I'll leave you to rest. I'll tell the others you're working with me on a project. Take the day off." She stood to leave, while also secretly snagging a keycard that sat in Otto's room. Ami never did something for nothing after all.
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 7:48 am
Otto's expression fell flat. Putting faith in future failures? Knowing that everyone else was failing just as much as him? Little comfort.
Otto raised a brow as Ami fidgeted with his bangs, eyes following her as she stood to leave. "Yeah, sure.." Otto murmured. Sleeping instead of working sounded just fine to him. He didn't even bother waiting for Ami to leave before he laid himself down to sleep.
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