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please allow me to introduce myself. [ether] - Niklas - 11-09-2018 I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife He stands apart. Always apart. Their lives are meaningless. Their loves, their losses, the chaos and destruction that they bring down on one another … they mean nothing. It means nothing. Most of them are a blip on the face of their world; insignificant in the eyes of time. Those gathered thin out as night rises, drawing a blanket of chills and breath vapors over the winter-laden landscape. Motionless, he watches them go from the tree line, lips drawn tight in distaste at the affection with which they bid their goodbyes. There is little point in relationships that gain you nothing but useless emotion. He rolls his eyes, the pupil nearly lost in the dark brown of today’s color choice. As the silence stretches longer, the ground at his feet begins to tremor. The snow cover on the ground is thin, the tightly twined branches overhead heavily laden. The boughs tremble, depositing their burdens on his back, and the lightless spaces in the frozen dirt expand and the hellhound emerges, dark molecule by dark molecule. This time he is small, no taller than Niklas’ knee. Just as lanky as his master, the shaggy black thing shakes the sulphur dust from his coat. Niklas follows suit, stretching his refined head forward and rolling his shoulders violently, ridding his back of snow. With a wordless glance, the two turn and melt into the welcoming shadows of the Forest. Set had sent him out from the Isle in search of him. And, of course, like a good little demon, he is complying. His father had learned a thing or two from a certain voodoo priestess the last time they had been home. The binding spell that holds him in Set’s control is one of them. They had disagreed on its necessity on more than one occasion – something about his inability to temper his inherent nature. Rubbish. He moves through the bowels of the Forest without sound, even the snuffle of the hound’s ever-searching nose muffled in the cold silence. Here shadow rules all and here is where they will find him. “Etherrrrr …,” his voice purrs with promise, systematically searching the nothingness with practiced ease. Come out, come out wherever you are. Niklas Hybrid, Black, Set x Anaxarete, Demon RE: please allow me to introduce myself. [ether] - Ether - 11-09-2018 Golden eyes watching our every move He’d noticed. The shadows react differently to his presence, whispering through the darkest reaches of his hidden realm, heralding his arrival. It was impossible to miss, especially for one so closely entwined with those very shadows. He hadn’t liked it, so odd and foreign in the place he draws the most comfort from. ether RE: please allow me to introduce myself. [ether] - Random Event - 11-09-2018 @[Niklas] has been infected by the plague (rolled a 3). He is a carrier (rolled a 1). He will not express a trait (rolled a 5). @[Ether] has also been infected by the plague (rolled a 1). He will show symptoms (rolled a 3). He will not express a trait (rolled a 4). RE: please allow me to introduce myself. [ether] - Niklas - 11-14-2018 I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife It’s all about perspective. He can feel Ether’s imminent attendance – the shadows bend to his will because they must, his dear, pitchy slaves. They fear him, serve him; but they love the boy. It matters little to him – their obedience is his to wield as he sees fit. Loyalty without something in return is not a concept he is well versed in. His insides ache and a shiver ripples down his sides and he rattles the bars of his cage. He would be free one day. Until then … He blinks and the yellow eyes are there, peering out from the impossible depth that hides the rest of him. Niklas does not hesitate to smile and he cannot help it, it is a gruesome, dangerous thing. Who are you, he asks and the black devil’s smile only grows wider, the black of his eyes going white and then fading to a dull brown. “You mean you don’t recognize your own family?” He feigns a pout, drawing closer to the pair of eyes, the soft thud of his footsteps on the frozen earth disturbing the quiet of the deep wood. Thin ears pinned tight, teeth clenched together, he snakes his head out and blows, eyes rolling back as he shoves the shadows back with a violent burst of power. His intent is to strip the younger stallion of his cloak, bare him without prejudice. They may refuse, cling to their charge as if they might save him for whatever hell awaits him in their master’s company. No matter – he can always send his pet in after him. “Right then,” he suddenly says, shifting in the gloom, nose wrinkled in mild disgust. “Niklas,” he offers, knowing the name will have no meaning and not caring. “Do you even know who you are? What you are?” He asks with a tilt of his thin head. Even he is not entirely sure - beyond the blood relation - but he can sense this Ether belongs to his darkness. The Plague creeps along the Forest floor, sinking into his flesh, a sickness welcomed. Niklas RE: please allow me to introduce myself. [ether] - Ether - 11-16-2018 Golden eyes watching our every move He grips the shadows with a cruel hand, and Ether does not like it. They are so forgiving, the shadows. If one but showed a hint of kindness, they were always so willing to shield and protect, to cloak and give themselves over. But instead of asking, he commands with unbridled harshness, turning that willingness to slavery. He does not like it. ether |