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 Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:39 pm
The moon was dim and waxing in the clear sky as pale Seitaru'kai made her descent, barred wings stroking the sky with the quiet efficiency of an owl. She landed easily atop a small rocky protrusion from the savannah, wide enough as to not be a precarious perch. The goddess settled on her chosen resting place, making herself comfortable on the still-warm rock.
Reclining with sphinx-like posture, she spread her wings, letting them stretch to either side of her and rest on the stone. Even with those sprawling wings, there was likely just enough room for another creature on her perch - not that she was expecting to share it.
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:47 pm
"Gods blast it all." Athrun snarled angrily, the past hundred thousand years had just not been his years. Of course being the god of loneliness, what year could he really say was his? Not many, it wasn't like the mortals that walked on the plains even WANTED him to be around to cause them strife. And the gods themselves had cursed him to stay in the shrunken form of a mere adolescent. Not to mention the'd taken away his pride.
Such dark thoughts in the morning. Activating the Eye with a grumble, Athrun gazed straight up at the goddess sitting atop the rock. Damnit, he had company didn't he? ninja
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:00 pm
Sei was in the middle of a relaxed yawn, tongue curling between her teeth, when her jewel-hung ears perked alert at the sound of an irritable voice. Her mouth snapped shut, and her posture straightened as she brought her wings closer to her body, folding them at her sides.
Composed, she peered down, searching out the voice's anger. Behind the blindfold, her sight was shifting, full of light, shadow, and color - the suggestion of life and flow. And below her, the aura of the individual was bright with the familiar light of her kind, of the gods. If she looked hard enough into the light, she could see him, that stranger-god.
"Do you call on yourself, then?" she inquired, with a calmly level voice and an honest curiosity about the adolescent deity.
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:06 pm
"Heh, do I call on myself to what?" The corner of Athrun's mouth fell downward a bit as he stood and used his abnormally large wings to brush the dirt from his snow white fur. This goddess was fairly pretty, he liked her the moment he looked at her, but his gut told him that she was just like any other goddess or god. That she may have been one of the ones that had cursed him.
Therefore caution was a must.
Sighing softly he sat down with his back straight and looked up at her, using the Eye on his blindfold to take the white and purple lioness in as he fluttered his wings and laid them over his sides and back to hide the heiroglyphics and his ankh.
"I was once called Athrun, if you'd be so kind as you supply your name willingly we can get all of those pleasant unpleasantries out of the way." He raised the corner of his mouth a bit more above level than normal. It was almost a smile, though Athrun wouldn't call it that.
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:32 pm
"To 'blast' whatever it is has ruffled your feathers," she replied with an amused smile, ears flicking forward with interest.
"I've never heard them put that way," Sei noted then, "I suppose you could call them the other way around, too. But I am Justice, called Seitaru'kai."
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:57 pm
Raising one of his eyebrows free of the blindfold that covered his eyes, Athrun smirked up at the goddess for a moment. The goddess of Justice then was she? That could prove worthy of his cause of getting back at the gods that had scorned and cursed him so. But then she didn't seem the kind to be getting back at anything.
Appearences were decieving however. He'd learned long ago that even those with meek minds and bodies could often prove the most dangerous of all to tussle mentally and physically with.
"Justice? Well, what's a goddess doing down on the earthly plain that so obviously shines with her own light?" Athrun asked playfully of her. One ear flicked forward in immense amuzement and he smiled disarmingly at her.
Careful.
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:39 pm
"Well, I'm not much good far away, now I am I?" she replied lightly, raising to her thorn-marked paws and hopping easily from her perch. Literally talking down at the other god just didn't seem proper somehow.
Sei was well-proportioned, neither delicate nor bulky, and in good, muscled condition. Neatly resettling her wings, she eyed the adolescent with curiosity. "And you, Athrun? What domain do you call yours?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:31 am
That made sense, that was part of the reason he'd never been to the heavens in all his hundreds of thousands of years of being. Well it was that paired with the fact that he absolutely deplored the gods for some reason that he would keep to himself. The last thing he needed this goddess to know right now was why he hated her siblings and cousins so.
"You make a good point. Have you ever been up there though?" He asked in a quip.
Curling his tail gently around his back leg, the god adjusted his hind legs and gazed at her again for a moment. The Eye of Horus shimmered for a long time before growing dim and flat again.
"Domain? Well, I can't say that I can call anything my own. I lost so much when I was cursed, though the child that created me created me out of pain and loneliness. So I suppose loneliness would be my domain if anything."
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:14 am
"Now and then," she admitted, settling back on her haunches. She'd never found it to be particularly captivating. Things tended to go much more...interestingly...down here.
"Loneliness?" Such a sad thing to call your own. Did that mean Athrun himself must be lonely? How dreadful that would be. Almost as much, his mention of being cursed aroused questions in her. Her voice was gentle. "A curse, Athrun?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:30 am
A smirk raised across his muzzle and he nodded to the slightly larger lioness lightly. Unlike the other gods and goddesses that he'd met in his long life, Athrun found that he beleived the words coming from Sei's mouth more than he had any other. It seemed to him that she thought before she spoke, a trait not many had.
"Yes, the god of loneliness, though to be honest I think that being the goddess of justice must be so much better." He laughed a little and let a true smile work it's way over his muzzle.
Only to have it drop a bit as she asked about his curse. Sighing gently, the god flicked his wings out so that she could see all the heiroglyphics ranging down his body and the ankh on his hip. "As long as these won't wash from my body I'm stuck this way. I'm hundreds of thousands of years old and I look the same I did when I was first created." He let his head drop slightly and the wind blew his mane about his head gently. "But it scathes even more that the gods I should be calling brothers and sisters were the ones that did this to me."
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:39 am
"Perhaps, but it does have its own sort of loneliness to accompany it." Despite the words, her lips lifted in a smile in response to Athrun's. "It holds a certain dire quality that can intimidate, or invite ridicule."
With a frown, the goddess surveyed the marks scrawled over his body, her black-tufted tail flicking behind her, betraying her concentration.
"I've never seen such before," she admitted, while her thoughts went for a moment to Kikausha, whom she herself had cursed never to grow ever more, for his disrespect and sacriledge towards old age. "Others of us did this to you? But why?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:50 am
"You may have a point. But to be lonely all the time is just as much a burden as it is a strength." He chuckled a little at her words. He didn't entirely expect her to understand, though he did a little. After all, she had her own form of powers to contend with and the power to seek justice had to overwhelm her at times too.
Athrun almost felt as if he wanted to blush from the attention she was paying his markings, but he forced it back down and looked at them himself.
"I would imagine not, unless you'd been around and near during Egyptian times." The god told Sei slowly. His eyebrows pulled together suddenly and dissapeared under his blindfold. "Honestly, I'm not entirely sure why. But it was around the same time that they banished the pride I watched over to the dust. I'm still looking for descendants from it." He felt his heart squeeze a bit and sighed. "I just wish at the time I'd been able to ask them why." Nightmarish images of the time he'd been chained to the ground and had his wings broken flashed through Athrun's memory, as real as if they were happening at that exact moment.
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:10 am
Sei nodded at his words, in which there was certainly wisdom. To be lonely forever and always...it was a difficult, nearly impossible thing to imagine, and the effort to do so weighed sadness on her mind.
"They did not even justify it to you?" Inwardly she bristled. Even a base criminal deserved to know what they had done to bring punishment upon themselves; that Athrun had not been told seemed an indication that, perhaps, he had in fact done nothing to truly deserve a curse. It riled her, and she shifted her wings in quiet agitation. "Do you know who they were? The ones who did it?"
She would seek them out and ask them, she resolved.
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:27 pm
"Sadly no, and even if they had it wouldn't have made much of a difference at the time. It was as if my world was suddenly out of my own claws, I couldn't hold on no matter how fast I fell. In one blow I was stuck in a younger state and the pride I'd once loved like children was slaughtered and sent to dust." Athrun twisted his head so that the goddess couldn't see the tear that leaked out from under his blindfold. "Nothing could justify senseless killing in my mind, no matter how horrible the crime."
A sigh floated from his muzzle and he used the edge of his wing to flick the tear away so that he could look back at the goddess. "I wish that I did, but I only remember faces, I haven't seen them in hundreds of years since it happened though. Honestly I've seen nothing because I was forced into slumber, but even then I can't remember." He faintly wondered if it was their plan for him to not remember and he frowned.
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:09 pm
"No, nothing," she confirmed, a cold anger seeping into her voice, and consuming her eyes beneath the blindfold. Her twin who sat opposite her was Chaos, but nothing was more bane to her than injustice, no matter how long past.
And what disturbed her most was a sheer inability to do anything about it. With Athrun having little memory of the perpetrators, she had nothing to go on to track them down. There was only Loneliness, the victim, who stood before her.
To whom she, as Justice, owed something. "Those marks of yours, you said...as long as they don't wash away, your curse remains. Do you think it's possible there may be some way to cleanse them?"
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