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Enters the Jack.
Who promptly sits at the bar and orders water. That actually doesn't mean anything special- water is still his favourite thing. You can create such lovely things with it.
Very soon, a menagerie of crystal animals are ambling about, soundless except for the clink of icy feet on the polished surface of the bar.
Who promptly sits at the bar and orders water. That actually doesn't mean anything special- water is still his favourite thing. You can create such lovely things with it.
Very soon, a menagerie of crystal animals are ambling about, soundless except for the clink of icy feet on the polished surface of the bar.
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But that part wasn't entirely unexpected.
Jack takes another spoonful.
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"Have you done anything interesting lately?" her eyes are curious once more. "You asked me, and I would like to know as well."
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He shifts in his seat.
"I find myself more and more despondant."
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"We will have to find a door, yes?" she nods decisively. "To someplace that stays cold. I would say that you could stay with me for a while, but it is awfully unpleasant - and you would have to stay away from the water. Because I certainly would not want you to be forgetting things."
She lets out a discontented sigh, "I am sure we can think of something. I do not want you to be sad - not ever."
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"I would be allowed to stay with you. Because water cannot touch my skin, Lethe, it becomes ice and ice I have power over. Is it very cold where you are from?"
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"I have to warn you though - it is dark always, a terrible, unhappy sort of dark," she chews her lower lip, tangling fingers in a curl. "And there is the Line."
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He takes a bite of icecream, contemplatively.
"It sounds rather ominous. Should I ask Belial to get rid of it?"
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"I do not think that it can go away, it is needed. It never ends and it never gets shorter," she smiles though, grateful for the offer.
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He reaches for her hand.
"I have never had much of a memory. I was not created to have one. Forgetfulness is not an entirely terrible thing. It can keep you safe."
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"You are lovely - you know that right?"
A pause as she looks down at their hands, "I just - I think it is unfair sometimes. My river takes all things and they are always so empty afterward. No one should have to lose everything."
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He sees it as a gift.
"It is better than having to remember everything always. It would ache."
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"Sometimes you are right," her nose scrunches in thought. "It is good to start again - to get a second chance. But sometimes it is just an ending - or they are left that way, empty."
The fingers of her other hand press lightly where her heart is.
"Yes," the small smile falters. "It does."
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He nods, convinced, and trying to reassure.
"Even for those who are left, it is better to risk everything to gain everything."
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She hugs him one more, smile grateful. "Thank you - you can stay with me for now, it will be nice to talk to someone who is not petrified of me."
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He asks it very carefully.
"You need not. If you do not like it to be so, I will try to find somewhere else but, oh, I would love to."
[ooc: and my *@!#*$ connection decides to crap out. Sorry about that. Also, if you don't mind, please toss me an email at underwater.owl@gmail.com ? I'd like to chat about some of the details if you actually feel like trying this out.]
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"Oh! Yes of course you can," she nods. "I just would not think that you would like to stay there for a very long time - it is rather horrid sometimes."
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He can't help but laugh, and cools the melting icecream again with a flick of his fingers.
"And I will not be unhappy. I must ask Belial, though, because it would not do to unleash other parts of things into his places accidentally, and I am unseperable from some ideas that are darker."
[ooc: my connection is flickering far too much to sustain aim at this point, but if it works later I'll ping, I'm UndrwO]
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Lethe picks up her spoon once more, smiling at the sweetness.
"I do not think that your Belial is exactly the same as the Lord of my realm," she twirls her spoon around two of her fingers. "The Lord Hades is married to the Lady Persephone - and she will be returning above soon, so he is not in the best of moods. But I am not often spoken to, so I cannot be entirely certain."
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He folds his arms, setting them on the bar and resting his chin on them.
"He is my friend. It would be unkind not to at least tell him when I will be away."
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"And you certainly can tell him, you are supposed to tell your friends such things," she shoots him a crooked, reassuring grin. "I will try to bring you here whenever you would like."
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He smiles, shyly, and hugs her once more before he goes.