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 Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 7:24 am
Having recovered from her the rather traumatic ordeal of laying eggs Cosine decided to pay Echo a visit. She knew the goddess would be pleased with the news and also Cosine wanted to ask some advice on raising mini gods. She had left Ankou with the eggs, it was his first time alone with them but she knew he would be okay.
She walked up to Echo's door and knocked. She was quite aware of the fact that she looked a little wild in appearance. Now there were three lots of feathered braids framing her face. Her old ones on the left and the new one on the right, her hair white where she had absorbed Ankou's mana, the feathers pale and glowing in contrast to the dark crow feathers on the other side.
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 8:13 am
It was not long before an aoide, this time Alto, came to open the door. He seemed rather surprised, curious even, but the mute aoide only nodded and led Cosine to Echo's work room, where the goddess had been holed up for a few hours now.
Echo had been content to leave the more in-depth research to Kios, really. Pouring over star charts certainly was not her forte, no, and as far as she knew, Exalla was still having her headstalks talked clean off her head by her youngest, and no one had found Shiana yet.
So instead Echo was doing research, about Exalla's kind... And so far she had not found much. She might need to bother her youngest again.
The few knocks on the door dragged her nose out of the book she had been studying, and Echo finally looked up. "Cosine !" She greeted with a smile, through the braid of white hair had her quickly yurn curious. Music rose to meet up with her sister instead of inviting her into the room, as there were definitively better places where they could talk. "How are you ?"
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A Wandering Esper Captain
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 8:28 am
Cosine followed Alto through the comfortable apartment and smiled as they walked to Echo's work room. She liked to watch Echo at work.
"Good, good. I have a lot to tell you and some things to ask." She should have brought something with her perhaps. Some flowers or cake, though she had not had time. Hopefully Echo would not mind.
"Ankou has fully ascended. Whilst we were on the Journey to find forge. Gave me the fright of my life of course."
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 9:14 am
 "Oh ?" There was deep curiosity in her tone, but she let Cosine start to explain... And she could not help but laugh.
"Sounds familiar..." Definitively amused there, through if Cosine had not needed to more or less crawl her way down Yggdrasil to kick Ankou in the a**, she already had it better than she had.
"How is Forge, by the way ?" She asked, making her way to the garden. There had been no need to bring cake - by how Alto angled to the kitchen, it was obvious he was about to provide something similar, and drinks as well.
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A Wandering Esper Captain
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 9:32 am
"He was taken down a soul path to the underworld. i thought the worst, but he returned of course." She shook her head a little and followed Echo out to the garden. One of her favourite places to pass time in good company.
"Forge is growing stronger. Glyph is searching for a suitable host. One that is strong and I hope willing. it will enure they do not reject her again." She looked up at the sky and smiled happily. "There is some more good news I have to tell you. Or maybe I should make you guess."
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 9:57 am
"That is good to hear..." The trip had not been in vain, at least. She would have to keep an eye out, see if she could spot the host once it had been found... See if there was anything she could aid with, any questions she could answer.
"Anything to do with the sudden style change ?" She teased. The white braid had not escaped her notice - it was hard for someone not to see it, really.
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 10:04 am
Cosine laughed and examined the end of her braid. She had not expected it to change colour though she had to admit she liked it.
"Yes, I think so." She smirked and looked up at Echo. "Ankou and I, we're bound to each other now I suppose." Mortals might call it marriage, though as gods it felt like more than that. Eternity was a long time. "And ..." Cosine paused and gave Echo a grin. "You are soon to be an Aunt."
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 10:28 am
...That seemed surprising in itself. Ankou had never seemed the 'settle-down' type, at least not to her... Through Echo had to admit she did not know Ankou as well as she perhaps should. They certainly were on good terms, yes, but the Spirit Guide more or less remained a mystery to her. It always seemed to be impossible to tell what he was thinking, in those long bouts of silence of his.
...And she was going to be a what ?!? Echo might as well have been a spliting image of her son right now, with those wide eyes. "Really ?!" Hee !
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 10:34 am
Cosine nodded and grinned broadly. Was she a proud mother to be? ... very much. "Yes, really. It's a little crazy. Especially when i tell you what happened. Ankou and I ... we decided that we would like to have children together and well, certain things fell in place. Ankou is with them now ... the eggs." She glanced back at Echo, surpressing a smirk as she waited for her sister goddess' reaction to that nuugget of information.
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 11:05 am
"...The eggs ?"
Blink. Blink blink. Really, Echo seemed just a little uncertain as to weither or not Cosine was pulling her leg or not. Eggs were not that far fetched, not really, when she did think about it, as she had more or less carried her own children to term as lifeflames.
But still.
"...You've laid what now ?" That... could not have been a fun experience.
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A Wandering Esper Captain
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 11:21 am
What could she do but laugh at Echo's surprise. Really was it that shocking?
"Yes, eggs, I am a counting crow after all?" She did not really care what anyone thought about it, they were her children and any way they came to be would be natural for her. "It's good really, it means I do not have to do all the work."
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 11:45 am
Really, part of Echo's shock was most likely due to her still rather human-like mindset. No matter what happened, it seemed like she could never completely shake off mortal perception. "Well, that makes sense." She admitted, amused.
The idea of Ankou babysitting eggs was, well, amusing, she had to admit. And really, she kind of wished she could have seen his face when that had happened. If his expression had been anything near Nergal's when he realized the lifeflames were his, that would have been completely worth it. "How many, then ?" She asked, curious.
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 12:06 pm
"Three. I am pretty sure there are two girls and a boy. Influence I am still working on. One is definitely an Underworld connected realm, the boy. His egg is cool, the other two warm." She really could not wait for them to hatch so that they could meet them
"You should come and meet them. We've chosen names already."
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 12:33 pm
Well, that was more than she had been able to decipher before the actual birth of her own children, which Echo had to admit was impressive. Was Cosine seeing this through the numbers ? Highly possible.
"I would certainly like to do so, but it would probably be more interesting for the little ones once they are no longer eggs." She grinned. Alto returned with a tray of tea and cookies, and Echo accepted it with a nod.
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 12:58 pm
Cosine shrugged a little.
"I think they can hear things. Mortal babies hear things when they are inside their mother so why not within eggs. They might enjoy some of your music?" She and Ankou had taken to talking to them, singing to them sometimes. "I had a few questions for when they join us. Are they like mortal babies? What do I feed them? It's as intimidating as it is exciting."
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