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 Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:31 pm
 "Oh, I probably will." Hard on the ego but... Well, Adi had seen him do much, much stupider stuff, when he was a lot longer. He was glad that they were moving out into the forest - if Adi saw him, it wouldn't be so bad.
If anyone else saw him, however... Well, the consequences could be tragic. He wanted people to take him seriously ! He was a god, after all.
The idea of leaving his veil unattended was, well, not one he liked - but the idea of damaging it was an even more unattractive one, so he did as he was told - both sandals and veil were taken off and put aside safely. The rest, well, he didn't mind what might happen.
"Okay, and then ?" He was ready for the lesson, like he had been so many times before.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:22 pm
"Okay, well." Adi hadn't really done much teaching before, but it was kind of exciting! "Get up kind close to the trunk, face it, and get a good hold on a branch." So saying, she did this herself. "If you get strong enough, you can really just jump a little and pull yourself right up onto the branch, but we'll save that for...whenever."
"Now, just sort of...let the branch take most of your weight, and put your feet on the trunk - they'll help hold you up!" She did as she said, although she had the advantage of claws and tough pawpads. "And then you kind of..."
"Well, like this!" Deciding that showing was going to be better than explaining, Adi proceeded to 'walk' up the trunk of the tree and then haul herself up, wrapping her legs around the branch. From here, she looked at Kios upside-down before righting herself to sit straddling the branch.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:19 pm
Adi made it all so easy, really, but he knew better. Really, he knew so much better. It probably helped that she had claws.
He didn't.
It quickly became evident that while his arms were holding up to the task of holding the branch, his feet just couldn't hold a grip on the rough bark. At all. Adi had some wierd-shaped feet too, maybe that did help, too ?
Hn.
Eventually, through. Akakios simply grapped the branch and tried to pull himself up. It took a few attempts, even when, but eventually he did manage to pull himself up. "It isn't as easy as you make it look !" He said, amused.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:51 pm
"There, you didn't even fall!" Adi approved, quietly impressed that Lament had managed to pull himself up directly, even if it took him a few tries.
"That's 'cause I've been doing it, like, forever." The werewolf pushed herself up into a crouch, balancing carefully on her branch. "It's pretty much the same thing to get higher - it's actually easier, really, since it's not as far from branch to branch as it is from the ground to the first branch. You just have to be careful, 'cause if you fall...well, you fall farther. And you hit things on the way down."
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:45 pm
"I did it before... Well, on a smaller tree. When I was small. I met an host and went up to get some fruit for her, since we couldn't fine anyone tall to get it for us. Tumbled my way down, through." He chuckled. Good thing his mother hadn't been around - she'd have freaked out !
For now, through, Lament seemed content with sitting on the branch and talking.
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:22 pm
"That was nice of you! Too bad you fell out, though. That always hurts." Since Kios didn't seem inclined to keep climbing, she dropped into a sit, legs dangling. "Whose host was she?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:45 pm
"Kikechum, she said. Animals. I havn't seen her in some time..." He mused. A part of him hoped the goddess hadn't taken over yet, that Enkepe was still here. He wanted her to see him like this, as selfish as it might have been.
That, and he missed the little pooka, quite suddenly. It had certainly been a long time...
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:34 pm
"Animals? That's a cool thing to be goddess of." Watching her cousin think of the host, she suggested, "You should go and see her, then. You know, before..."
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:43 am
"I don't know where she is now." He admitted, sheepish. She'd had a basket downstairs, but... it wasn't there anymore. Did that mean that her goddess had already taken over ?
"The whole host thing is... weird, to me." He admitted, brows furrowing a bit in confusion. "The others might be used to it, but... I never had to do it. So im not sure if I really understand." Why couldn't they just be... made like he was ? Well, he figured there had to be some gods before new gods could be born from them... But there'd been Harmodius, hadn't it ?
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:46 am
"It's...it's sort of complicated," Adi said, not launching into an explanation of her understanding of it as she once would have. It was different once you'd been through knowing a host and losing them...or sort of losing them. So yeah, complicated. "You could ask your parents?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:23 am
"I did, but... They say it's different for everyone." Some hosts were erased, blotted out from existence. Some even wanted it. Others became one with the god, like his mother had done with her own host. It had made him wonder what his mother had been like before, but he would never know, wouldn't he ? It had happened so long before he was even born...
The only common thread was that the host as they were did not remain, even in the strange cases where the host became dominant - they never were truly the same, again.
He did take Adi's hand and squeeze it lightly, through he wasn't sure exactly why he did. It sounded like she'd lived it before, and in a way he could feel it. Just because there were gods involved, just because it wasn't the same kind of death that most, didn't mean that it wasn't a loss.
He knew how to deal with that.
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:35 pm
"Yeah," Adi said with a small nod. "I guess the rest of us can't ever really understand it the same way they do."
She smiled when Kios squeezed her hand, and suddenly found herself wanting a hug, so she hopped over onto his branch to lean against him. Huuugs! They made everything better. Mostly.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:45 am
Or hugs. Hugs were okay too, even if the altitude made it a bit perilous. Well, perilous for him, at least.
It was easy enough - after all, how many time had he been left to comfort his sister after she'd become upset ? He started playing with her hair without thinking much about it. It always calmed Crys, maybe it would help Adi, too ?
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:22 pm
Adi wasn't overly worried about the possibly dangers of hugging while up in a tree, and leaned in in quiet happiness when Kios started to play with her hair. Her ribboned tail waved a little, and she closed her eyes.
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:34 pm
Ha ! Seemed to work just as well. Maybe it was just a girl thing, through... He'd need to admit that he did like to get his hair played with, too. Not many did attempt to do it through, and especially not since he'd grown.
He was tempted to recite to her, but he figured she wouldn't like it as much as Crys did, so instead he remained silent.
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