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 Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:35 pm
"I know they do, but I told them I was fine and..." She sighed annoyingly and retreated to a couch. It wasn't exactly an invitation but it was probably the best Rio would get considering the circumstances. Trickery wasn't about to be rude and just tell him to leave after he had come all this way.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:39 pm
"Apparently you gave them reason to believe otherwise." Rio followed at a respectful distance, but didn't sit. He remained standing, wary of crossing any invisible barriers he should not. "Do you always tell them the truth?"
He was betting not, considering who she was.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:44 pm
"Sometimes and sometimes not the whole truth." Tien was half curled against one arm of the couch and didn't meet his eyes. "Please, sit down. I won't bite." The corner of her mouth turned up in the tiniest smile, clearly her usual self was buried somewhere underneath all the mixed emotions.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:47 pm
"You never know," he said with a tentative grin, but he was clearly relieved, and sat as she bade him. "I wouldn't want to lose anything that isn't edible."
"Well. I guess it's obvious why I'm here."
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:54 pm
Were the goddess in a better mood she might have teased him about Asherah but she let the opportunity slip by instead. "Your supposed to talk me out of whatever this mood is, unless I miss my guess?" She tentatively looked over her shoulder at him but didn't move otherwise.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:00 pm
"Nn-hn," he confirmed, "Ideally." It wasn't like he could just fix it with a wave of his hands, but hopefully, he'd be able to make her feel at least a little better...both for her sake and because he didn't want to disappoint Asherah. What better motivator could one ask for than a pretty catgirl?
"I take it this is something to do with a certain dragon?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:07 pm
"It...always seems to." She admitted, her gaze darting away again. "It ended up being more than I expected...and yet not what I was hoping for." The words made sense in her mind but to hear them pass her lips, it just seemed confusing. Would Rio even understand?
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:15 pm
"Mm? What happened, exactly?" In the gentle prying, there was a tone of understanding. He knew what it was like, to inherit the memory and emotion of one's host, to find oneself with the same feelings. In Tien's situation, it was doubly complicated - two hosts, two gods. Both had changed, not just one.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:43 pm
"When I told him...kissed him...he was surprised and confused." She wouldn't tell Love that Worldshield had tumbled to the floor, looking rather like an embarrassed schoolboy. "No acceptance, but, no outright revulsion either. I was prepared for rejection, I am not her after all. What I hoped for was well...far more than what I got." Her arms wrapped around herself.
Rio was right in thinking this was complicated. "She loved him, even after he changed, despite everything. I guess I was hoping...that things wouldn't change." That he might love me still. Her voice had drifted off by the end, so much so that he would barely be able to hear her. "In hindsight its understandable, he doesn't know me...only the parts that are still her."
"Tian Yue weeps still for the voice of the stars that is gone. He grieves for her still too, I think...even though so much of her still survives in me. His emotions are a tangle, moreso than mine." Tian Yue had told her that much himself; he had Shaiming, Crispin and his own memories and feelings to contend with. She was silently thankful she had Morgan's feelings, memories and what remained of her own to contend with.
"He said he would know me...and that gives me cause for hope."
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:06 pm
"You're right. Things can't be as they were, not exactly - you've both changed, so how can they stay the same? They must change, too, but you also can't force them to do so." This was said softly, not meant to scold but to draw attention to what she needed to realize.
"Still, you already have a better start than you might think; he needs to get to know you, and you need to get to know him, as you both are now." It was no guarantee, of course, but there was no sense in dwelling on that.
The poor dragon was probably a mess...he should probably pay him a visit, too.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:18 pm
"Your right, of course. I just wish I had her courage for all this." She unwrapped her arms from around her legs and sat up. "I mean...she was brave enough to face Universe for his sake. I don't know if I would've done something like that in her place." The result was spectacularly disastrous of course, but she'd done it out of love. That meeting was something she hadn't even mentioned to Tian Yue.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:27 pm
"Universe?" Oh my! Rio was quite surprised to hear that, and it showed. "That is impressive." He'd never met Lucius, but...he knew something of him, of course. He could still remember how some had been suspicious of him, initially, after what his counterpart had done to help the ill-fated god.
"That courage must still be in you somewhere, surely, if you look hard enough."
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:39 pm
"So he wouldn't be alone once she...died." Her gaze flicked away from him. "Perhaps that's the reason I needed her..." She and Morgan had been similar in so many ways when it got down to what mattered, no doubt even Rio could see that a little bit.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:52 pm
"That could well be," he agreed with a soft smile. "It can be hard to tell, and more than one thing..."
"Regardless. You needn't worry so much." With a small measure of hesitation, he reached out with one hand to touch her chin and bring her gaze back to him from where it kept going. "Have patience, be yourself, and what will be will be." He spoke as one who'd learned this lesson well.
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:04 am
"We do have the rest of forever, after all, Crown willing." Tien genuinely smiled, feeling significantly better now that she had let all this out. "Thank you for listening to this fool in love ramble, Rio. Guess I just needed someone else to tell me what I already knew to be able to accept it." She reached up, resting a hand atop his and patted it gently before drawing away to resettle herself against the arm of the couch facing him.
"Can I ask how you've been?" It had been a while since they'd talked after all. The last time being when a few of them had all cornered Underworld in the corridors of the pantheon.
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