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Post by KD on Nov 5, 2011 22:27:15 GMT -5
"I do try. Which is why I hate it when I have to take on that stupid blade maiden form." She shook her head wryly
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Post by Jenny on Nov 6, 2011 15:48:43 GMT -5
He smiled lopsidedly. "Well, you have to admit it's pretty cool."
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Post by KD on Nov 6, 2011 17:30:57 GMT -5
She gave him a somewhat sour smile and shook her head, amused
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Post by Jenny on Nov 6, 2011 20:22:49 GMT -5
Orpehus chuckled a little at her face and shook his head, looking down from the tower. "What do you suppose will happen now?"
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Post by KD on Nov 6, 2011 20:50:08 GMT -5
"Depends, I suppose. Things haven't been stirred up like this for quite a while. I guess we'll have to see if your brother decides to try and cause some more trouble. Meanwhile, Marissa will probably be in one of her 'I must cleanse New Babylon of the scum' moods and hunting down anyone who sided with the fallen angel, so we'll have to be careful."
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Post by Jenny on Nov 6, 2011 20:54:06 GMT -5
His eyes turned the old quarter and nodded in it's direction. "What about those gods?"
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Post by KD on Nov 6, 2011 23:33:01 GMT -5
"No way to predict how they will react. At least one of them definitely was stirring, probably they've got worshipers watching the rest of the city more closely now. Not a good thing, but it might not be pure disaster yet."
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Post by Jenny on Nov 7, 2011 0:13:54 GMT -5
"Not the armageddon we feared," he grinned a little.
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Post by KD on Nov 7, 2011 0:30:55 GMT -5
"Never a true Armageddon. New Babylon always rises again, always will as long as there are worshipers and worshiped."
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Post by Jenny on Nov 7, 2011 0:37:15 GMT -5
The fallen angel was left as he was, no one came to mourn him, no one to take his body away from burial. He was pale, perfect. His soul had not been redeemed, as he had hoped. Now it was the property of Hell and there his spirit would suffer for eternity.
The armies had scattered, the wounded tended to, the dead taken to be buried and prayed for. They had died for what was right. Believers had been reminded that they were on the winning side, the right side. The side of good. Where followers had fallen, new ones would take their place, the cathedral a beacon of light to their dreary hearts.
Marissa would not know of Cerebrus. He had not been named, not with the fallen one's last breath. There was no lingering power now, no ounce of it. It had bled away with the last few drops of blood within the angel's body.
Orpheus looked down at the angel, whose pale skin seemed to shine in the moonlight. "He was stupid, but he was brave. Underhanded yes, but persistant. If I ever get ideas in my head like his... please, slap some sense into me." He chuckled.
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Post by KD on Nov 7, 2011 1:43:09 GMT -5
Karine came up beside him. "I promise to beat you upside the head unceasingly until you start thinking straight," she said. Her solemn tone was betrayed by the sparkle of laughter in her gray eyes.
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Post by Jenny on Nov 7, 2011 1:46:50 GMT -5
Orpheus laughed lightly. "I know you'll knock some sense into me. Just don't do it too hard or else I'll forget to thank you."
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Post by KD on Nov 7, 2011 2:03:27 GMT -5
Karine rested a hand on his shoulder for support...she still wasn't completely steady on her feet, looking down at the angel. "I still don't understand how the hell his mind worked....how could he possibly think he would be redeemed by doing what he was doing?"
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Post by Jenny on Nov 7, 2011 2:06:34 GMT -5
Orpheus lifted a hand and rested it on her own with a soft smile. She was welcome to lean on him as long as she liked. "Maybe being cast from heaven was too much for his sanity to bear."
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Post by KD on Nov 7, 2011 2:34:46 GMT -5
"I guess...he didn't seem crazy. Although crazy takes on many nuances and forms, I know..."
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