01-12-2015, 06:43 AM
Contradictions were right, in the mist of everything the Atharim had taught, godlings and sentient and who else knew what had sprouted inside its very carefully veiled walls. It's not like those who were introduced were not born into the life. Up until the moment she found out she was a reborn god, she'd have done her job without fail. She was sure Nox would have too, but he seemed to take things much differently than she did, and these days it was disconcerting to watch him with Aria.
They'd done much the same thing for a year, but that had made them grow apart, they disliked being around each other because they had bickered so much. Now they actually ate breakfast together and there was no tension, no fighting, just fun like it had been when Mother had died. Nox had watched in fear, frozen he'd seen her mauled to death, seen the claw marks rip her skin apart, seen her insides become her outside. And there was nothing he could do about it. He'd had nightmares for years on that. He probably still had them but they'd stopped sharing rooms when both their parents had died and Nox's proclivaties landed him a new girl in every town. Seems he was still up to his old games, except this girl he'd chosen, he wasn't sleeping with her. Which surprised Aurora greatly.
As if the memory had prompted the question Tehya had asked her to choose a creature, it was a quick response, an eager response, almost too eager. "A hell hound. One killed my mother."
Aurora swallowed hard, even now that she'd just watched the memories flash through her head, just saying it out loud made it more real. Aurora let he single tear fall. She was not some child to cry over the past, but she missed her mother. And her father, but his own demise had been less that Atharim, drunken into a stupor. She sighed. And now she was losing her brother to a home.
They'd done much the same thing for a year, but that had made them grow apart, they disliked being around each other because they had bickered so much. Now they actually ate breakfast together and there was no tension, no fighting, just fun like it had been when Mother had died. Nox had watched in fear, frozen he'd seen her mauled to death, seen the claw marks rip her skin apart, seen her insides become her outside. And there was nothing he could do about it. He'd had nightmares for years on that. He probably still had them but they'd stopped sharing rooms when both their parents had died and Nox's proclivaties landed him a new girl in every town. Seems he was still up to his old games, except this girl he'd chosen, he wasn't sleeping with her. Which surprised Aurora greatly.
As if the memory had prompted the question Tehya had asked her to choose a creature, it was a quick response, an eager response, almost too eager. "A hell hound. One killed my mother."
Aurora swallowed hard, even now that she'd just watched the memories flash through her head, just saying it out loud made it more real. Aurora let he single tear fall. She was not some child to cry over the past, but she missed her mother. And her father, but his own demise had been less that Atharim, drunken into a stupor. She sighed. And now she was losing her brother to a home.