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 Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2023 9:58 pm
Retzian had rested, and after Emily had left, she had gone out to once again search for Dagon…or maybe Daphne. Or…Cybele? Any of her friends.
Friends.
She felt warmth in her chest and had a little bit of a spring in her step as she walked, keeping her attention out for any auras that might be around, and when she felt that of a Senshi on her own level, she felt a thrill of joy, thinking that perhaps it was Daphne, or…well.
Swiftly, the Captain teleported closer to the aura and her eyes widened and brightened, heart beginning to pound in her chest. “Dagon! There you are.”
It seemed that she had been looking for the woman for weeks...and now that she was here, it was honestly all that Retzian could do, not to just fling herself at the fish woman of her dreams.
“How are you?”
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:22 pm
Dagon was fairly certain she was never really going to get used to any variety of teleportation. The instant appearance always threw her just the slightest bit off-balance.
This time, though, the person appearing in front of her was someone familiar.
Even as she felt that all too familiar ache of memory in her chest, she broke into a fond smile.
"Retzian," she said, and there was warmth in her voice. "I've been well. And you?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 4:54 pm
For a moment, Retzian simply shook her head, looking the woman over and finally, she crossed the distance between the two of them and placed her hands on Dagon’s shoulders, leaning up slightly to make up for the few inches of differences between the two of them and capturing Dagon’s lips in a light kiss.
“I’ve been looking for you. Thinking about you. I wanted to bring you into Chaos with me. I wanted to change you so that you forgot everything from before, so you and I could make a new life, but…now I just.”
The words were coming much too quickly, and to stop herself from speaking, Retzian kissed the corner of Dagon’s lips again. “I’m leaving. The Negaverse. I’ve got a friend helping me. But I’m leaving. And I wanted you to know.”
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 6:29 pm
The kiss was a little startling, but Dagon took a moment to enjoy it. It had been so long since she had shared any kind of intimacy with anyone else--it made her heart race a little, and her cheeks darken.
But she felt like something cold had been dumped over her, like she'd tripped and fallen into half-frozen water, when Retzian said that she had wanted to have Dagon corrupted.
Would she have done it? Would she have agreed, if Retzian asked? Given herself over to the thing that had destroyed her world, for love, the same way Tristan had? She wasn't certain. And the fact that there was any wiggle room at all--well.
It was a good thing that she apparently didn't have to worry.
"You're leaving," Dagon breathed, softly. "When? How? Is there anything I can do to help you?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 6:38 pm
Retzian huffed softly and continued to stretch, pressing her forehead against Dagon’s. “I’m leaving. When? Soon. How? I’m. Not sure, I have to find a Princess or someone named Cosmos…but…I’m leaving, yes.” Closing her eyes for a moment, she finally drew away. “If you can find someone who is a princess or Cosmos, let me know and put in a good word for me…ah. But. Do you want this of me? Do you want this for me?”
Falling quiet for a moment, The Captain shrugged. “Do you want this for us? Do you see there being an us? Or will I simply be a replacement for what you’ve lost. It’s. A question I need an answer to, Dagon.”
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 6:49 pm
Dagon closed her eyes, leaning into the touch of foreheads with a warm feeling of contentment. This...was so much more than she had ever thought to have. A thread of connection. A piece of warmth. Someone who wanted her.
"I will search for that. Perhaps the ones who helped me when I arrived here would know more." Encke, surely, had been around long enough to know many things about purification. About how to save a soul from Chaos's grip.
The question, though, made Dagon pause.
Made her think.
Of course she wanted this--of course she wanted there to be a them. But...ah, Retzian's question was a fair one. No one wanted to be standing in the shoes of a dead woman, made to live up to who hey used to be. Dagon shook her head. She had already learned this lesson with Stirling--she was so like Aralinn, but so very much her own person, too.
"Retzian. Yes, you bear my wife's starseed. But you are not her. That is not the way of reincarnation. You are a new person, all your own, and I would like for there to be an 'us,' so that I might get the chance to know more of you. As you are, and as you will become when you are freed from the Negaverse. If that is something you will allow me the chance to do."
She smiled, a little wry.
"I already like what I've learned of you so far. It would be a great gift to be able to know even more."
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 7:29 pm
“If you’re sure that I’m not just a replacement, I want it. Though.” She looked suddenly sheepish and tried to hold back a smile that twitched onto her lips as she glanced at Dagon. “I’m going to ask that you don’t…really. Talk about me to anyone. Unless you want to hear about how much of a fool I’ve been talking about you. And honestly, I’m simply going to say right now that I’ve spent a lot of time calling you a hot fish woman, and comparing people who aren’t hot fish women to you, so that’s that, and you can judge me all that you want, but it’s done.”
Her cheeks were burning, but Retzian looked at least a little determined.
“I trust that you have a place for us to live when this is over for me?”
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 7:55 pm
Dagon raised her eyebrows, and her expression shifted to delighted amusement. "Is that so? It sounds as if I should be flattered, if I've been on your mind so much."
She reached out a hand, gently cupping Retzian's cheek. "I have a place for us to stay, and we can find our own, if we like. But I have bene staying with the people who helped me when I first arrive don Earth, and it is a bit chaotic--but I'm certain there's room for one more."
Surely the Bells wouldn't turn away someone newly purified. And if that wasn't what Retzian preferred, they would make their way on their own.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 8:00 pm
Placing her own hand over Dagon’s, Retzian gave a pleased sigh. “Always on my mind. These hands have always been on my mind. Always…but, no. I’m not…I’m used to living on my own I’m not sure I could just enter a house filled with people, so we’d have to strike out on our own, besides. The things that I want to do with you…”
Breaking off, Retzian shook her head. “No, it just won’t do. Well, my friend is helping me get my money all settled so I should be able to get us a place to live, I hope. No, I will. I’ll work it out with her when I see her again. Don’t you worry, Dagon. Just…expect me. I’ll see you soon, I’m sure.”
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 8:17 pm
"Soon enoguh," Dagon said, smiling. She suppsoed that was something she hadn't considered---go a thousand yearsd without intimacy and you forget things, she supposed.
"Mm, somewhere of our own, yes." She would find a way. Whatever Retzian wanted, Dagon would make happen. Somehow, some way. "Find me when you are free. And we will see what we become, together."
It would be good. It had to be good.
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