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lazybox2020-05-15 10:43 pm
bloodyashes) wrote in lazybox2020-05-15 10:43 pm
soup but it tastes bad
The forest is quiet, and almost trackless - who needs a trail, after all, when the only person who ever passes this way is a single flesh eater, coming and going from the tower in the distance?
(But this story does not begin with Kratos Aurion was a blade.)
It begins, instead, with two blades in a remote forest, the same way another one ended, in the distant past. A blade of justice, and a flesh eater driver, seeking audience with the Aegis who is rumored to reside in the tower. And the story starts, just as the other ended, before they ever reach the tower.
Ether flows through the air - light-aspected, with hints of water and wind - and converges on a point. The crystalline structure doesn't look so different from the trees and underbrush that surround it, save for the fact that it glows white with a brilliance that's visible even in the direct light of the sun.
(The last story began, Van Grants was a blade.)
(It was not a happy story.)
Near the 'roots' of the tree, there is another core crystal to be found. Although it seems broken, it pulses with a dull red glow, indicative of the blade inside being ready (perhaps more than ready) to manifest again. Equally clearly, it has not been disturbed in a very long time - only the glow separates it visually from the natural stones around it, moss and dirt breaking up the too-square outline.
To those who can sense ether, however, it is practically a beacon. And to those who can see the threads of fate...
(This isn't the story of the Aegis. But there's a thread tied here, nonetheless, that hasn't disappeared.)
(But this story does not begin with Kratos Aurion was a blade.)
It begins, instead, with two blades in a remote forest, the same way another one ended, in the distant past. A blade of justice, and a flesh eater driver, seeking audience with the Aegis who is rumored to reside in the tower. And the story starts, just as the other ended, before they ever reach the tower.
Ether flows through the air - light-aspected, with hints of water and wind - and converges on a point. The crystalline structure doesn't look so different from the trees and underbrush that surround it, save for the fact that it glows white with a brilliance that's visible even in the direct light of the sun.
(The last story began, Van Grants was a blade.)
(It was not a happy story.)
Near the 'roots' of the tree, there is another core crystal to be found. Although it seems broken, it pulses with a dull red glow, indicative of the blade inside being ready (perhaps more than ready) to manifest again. Equally clearly, it has not been disturbed in a very long time - only the glow separates it visually from the natural stones around it, moss and dirt breaking up the too-square outline.
To those who can sense ether, however, it is practically a beacon. And to those who can see the threads of fate...
(This isn't the story of the Aegis. But there's a thread tied here, nonetheless, that hasn't disappeared.)
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The remaining blade on the steps -- isn’t his name Kratos Aurion? Anna would know -- heaves a sigh, watching the Aegis go. Slowly, he makes his way down the steps as well.
“The ideas that your...” he seems to get stuck on the word, “...friends had. About the blade system. They were good. I’ll..." His gaze follows after Mithos. “Maybe I can talk him around.”
He makes to follow, though he moves around the group of them rather than through them, more on Asch’s side than the rest -- though he's still giving the lot of them a considerable berth, more than the polite distance walking past someone.