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Post by Ereshkigal on Jan 29, 2009 12:37:21 GMT -6
All innocence Ereshkigal looks up at him.
"Constraint? What pray tell is that?" She maintains her straight face for a moment and then grins at him.
"Well it's certainly big enough. We could probably bunk a full platoon of Elite in here. with more than enough room left for them to train." She pauses. "No, no, don't even think about it. I'm not willing to risk their safety... and besides... who do we know we can trust..."
Still she moves forward to look at the cavern and can't suppress a small shiver.
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Post by Regent on Jan 30, 2009 10:52:34 GMT -6
Regent returns the Empress' smile as he cocks his head to the side. "Aye, all be it for your nature for the excessiveness of things, this is something that can come back to bite you worse than your Tenco."
With a flurry of his hands he sends shafts of fire that blaze into the cave. The flames ignite the pools of void collecting in the low pockets on the cave floor. Soon the brilliance of light becomes better as the cave illuminates for a much improved view.
"Some how, this reminicent of someplace... familiar... to me... did you recreate this from a memory majesty or is it simply a reflex of instinct?"
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Post by Ereshkigal on Feb 3, 2009 1:13:05 GMT -6
"It looks like.... the place I fought the abyss... The dark place inside me. I- i hope that it's safe. If I made it look like this do you think that maybe the worries I have became real along with it?" Ereshkigal looks this way and that canting her head to the side to listen for noises in the darkness.
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Post by Regent on Feb 6, 2009 22:52:33 GMT -6
Regent merely nods to Ere's comment. The reality of what the darkness can bring is sorrow and fear. What is destroyed and remade is always for the worst if not constrained and commanded to obey rather than given reign to freely distort.
"Though still muted the void still fights to gain control of your life majesty. Even if it is through subtle ways. Let this be the testimony to the first of your lessons that you must remain cautious and always hold your ground over that power. Never let it control your actions or thoughts. Had you not bled and separated the conscious part of void into Tenco, this simple test could have been the end of us all. After all what would be the fun in that?"
He says looking grim for a moment. "Yet another monumental tribute to the value of forethought is it not?"
He beams a nervous smile to Ere that twinkles evilly in the fire light.
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Post by Ereshkigal on Feb 12, 2009 2:03:30 GMT -6
She manages a wane smile, looking around at the underground.
"It has a beauty of it's own. One that pulls at me... But... What now?" Ereshkigal looks up at Regent, curious.
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Post by Regent on Feb 17, 2009 11:58:40 GMT -6
"Now we delve deeper into it. What is it you recall first and foremost about the void, when it spoke to you for the first time. Please be specific for it is the key to it all. Power, concentration, control. It shall mean nothing lest you can call it by name and command it's obedience as you do your own free will."
He looks to her as his eyes shimmer in the firelight. "It has a name and you must use it. A name as it is unique to you and you alone. For me it is a part of me as are the beings of the underworld for it was the command given to bind with me at my joining. With you it's joining was natural, and with it's willing union it's first words to you contain the answer. What did it call you on your first embrace? Delicately as a fragile whisper uttered as lightly as not to make a single sound yet shattering to your very core up on is vibration to your soul. It is your true name, a name it bonds with and binds with you for eternity. With it, you have, are and will become, as one."
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Post by Ereshkigal on Feb 23, 2009 1:27:03 GMT -6
Ereshkigal looks back out at the void. Her eyes seem to darken, as though reflecting back the void before them. But the darkness remains when she turns to look at him again.
"I was so small, barely more than a baby, when Papa bound me to the abyss." She smiles, sweet, and utterly mad.
"She called me beloved..."
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Post by Regent on Feb 23, 2009 13:06:09 GMT -6
Regnet's eyes spark at Ereskigal and her reply to his question. "Beloved... why am I not surprised? Then it is what you must use when you summon forth the void. Make a clear calling in your mind's eye, softly and patiently speak it into the darkness."
Regnet's words are not verbal however, they are soft hints of words from the void that fill their existences. His words are like the softest down in Ere's mental ears, encouraging as it plays softly ever in the background not to distract her from her concentration. For Ere this will be a summoning to her counter of the void to communicate for the first time, on common ground, as equals.
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Post by Ereshkigal on Mar 2, 2009 18:35:26 GMT -6
She nods absently and then steps off the concrete onto the crystal littered black floor of the cave. The fragile crystals break under the soles of her scuffed boots but she doesn't notice. Her dress swirls and takes it's rightful shape, the tattered floor length gown of the Queen, with all it's muted screams and harsh whispers echoing in the cavern.
Ereshkigal pauses a few feet from the remains of the room and takes a deep breath. Her eyes slowly close and though she doesn't say anything her mind reaches out questing, calling...
"Come... beloved...."
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Post by Narrator on Mar 3, 2009 9:52:00 GMT -6
A growing darkness swells in the cavern floor. Even though the fire light is still illuminating the deep cavern, they dim as though they are going out. The darkness grows as it gets closer to Ereshkigal and soon towers over her in the cramped entryway.
Its form is wispy black as it swirls and aimlessly drifts about inspecting things as a disobedient pup that has gotten of the leash. It parts from the floor as it drifts and examines Tenco with a mild curiosity as it teases the little fox. All the while the darkness stays clear of Ere and Regent almost like a shy child meeting stuffy relatives they do not know for the first time.
In the dim light it almost shimmers from the life inside it. The viod draws the light from the room like a wick draws up oil in a lamp. soon the room is distorted by shadows as the light becomes insufficient to illuminate the deep dark places.
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Post by Ereshkigal on Mar 9, 2009 21:28:50 GMT -6
Ere watches the void-thing a looking nonplussed and surprised- in short she stares at it with her mouth open.
"It's... kinda... umm..." she says and then tries again after a moment. "It' never manifested like that before."
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Post by Regent on Mar 16, 2009 13:43:24 GMT -6
Regent also watches the void manifest into a physical shape before them. He watches Ereskigal with extreme interests as she watches the void.
He speaks through the void to her again. "Call to it once more. This time you must be strong and confident, let it know you deserve it's attentions."
As the words echo through the void ripples cascade off the manifestation before them like radio signals off of clouds.
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Post by Narrator on Mar 16, 2009 14:10:06 GMT -6
The void leans toward Regent as if it is curious of itself inside this foreign shape speaking through it's core to another. It drifts closer to him and it speaks in their minds in a legion of voices speaking as one.
"You are not the Beloved, Lateinos, how do you know to call to us forth as the Beloved? Yours is not the destiny of the world destroyer... merely for her do you rule in her name to bring all to her glory. The Beloved is the only one who shall rule as the heir to the great Prince and as the sole sovereign ruler only with her power shall the apocalypse prophesied be fulfilled."
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Post by Regent on Mar 19, 2009 10:06:29 GMT -6
Regent smirks a funny little smile, "I know my place greatness, and it is not I who summon you forth as the beloved, It is her majesty herself who commands you forth to hear her words."
His hand extends to Ereshkigal as an introduction to the Void.
"Your majesty Queen Ereshkigal Yurei de Lucifer, May I introduce, the Vesperia, manifesto of the Void and keeper of the endless nothing... Vesperia, I have the honor of introducing our Magnanimous and Dreaded Queen of Darkness, Ereshkigal Yurei de Lucifer, High Empress of the 9 realms and your Beloved."
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Post by Ereshkigal on Mar 19, 2009 21:57:11 GMT -6
Ere's eyebrows raise at the use of all of her titles. But she bows her head regally to the Vesperia, her dress stilling, tendrils of living mist creeping towards the void-shape.
"Greetings, Keeper of the endless depths of nothing... Lateinos speaks truly. I called you and I call you again. Vesperia, beloved darkness. Come to me." Ereshkigal holds out a hand.
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Post by Narrator on Mar 22, 2009 11:12:32 GMT -6
The mass sparkles a bit at Ereskigal's voice echoing in the cavern. It moves toward her at her address and stops inches away just before it touches her. The massive blob of nothing begins to condense into a smaller and tangible form. Soon the figure before Ereskigal is an exact duplicate of herself as if she were looking into a dark mirror. The dress tendrils intermingle and the power transfer of the union tingles through Ereshkigal's entire body.
"Then it is true that my beloved has returned to reclaim her rightful place. Though you resist me, you take my gift and discard it into this abomination that can't use or even comprehend that power to bring about it's true purpose. Why do you reject me so Beloved? It is our destiny to destroy, why do you seek to prolong the inevitable? You rouse me to new heights of anger Beloved. Though exhilarating a sensation, how can we join and become as one when you torment me so with your cowardice and reject me through your acts of subjugation. This is no act of unity when you can't belay your obvious distrust of my desire to fulfill our life's destiny."
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Post by Ereshkigal on Mar 31, 2009 1:46:00 GMT -6
Ereshkigal chuckles, nodding with a flourish to acknowledge the truth of the words.
"I resist because you lack imagnination, dearest. I know you are intelligent- you adore using that intelligence to murmur your desires and pricks to me when I thwart you." She grins, devilish delight on her face as she grabs Vesperia's hands in her own and pulls- spinning them in a circle.
"Think! Think about the subtle and sublime darkness of slowly breaking a soul! First the bouquet of pride, desire and overconfidence, then the sharpness of the moment they realize how lost they are! And the smooth and sweet flavor of despair when they realize just how perfectly they were tricked..."
She lets go of her dark twin to hug her self grinning fiercely now.
"Remember my older brother... the one we killed when I was a child? You told me where to strike and I lived because of it. I trusted you then. Trust me now. It is not time for the end... not just yet." Ere holds out a hand to Vesperia again.
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Post by Regent on Mar 31, 2009 8:59:12 GMT -6
Regent watches the scene with relish. His eyes spark with wild anticipation as he studies the delicate dance of interaction with shadow and flesh. He stands waiting and watching as a child watches a small creature, entranced and elated to the sensation frozen in place by avid curiosity and spender.
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Post by Narrator on Mar 31, 2009 11:04:56 GMT -6
Vesperia heaves into Ere's touch like a jilted lover. Her expression is one of pain and mistrust. She softens her resistance as Ere draws her closely and whispers of deeds done long ago.
Upon the release of her embrace Verperia seizes like a frozen corpse standing stiffly looking at Ereskigal's arms folded about herself.
"Preservation was essential to continue our destiny. Guiding your hand and filling your heart with the desire to take his life was the only logical step to bring us further into our own Beloved. You did not relish the deed of his death, merely followed it through to survive. So, from you did I learn. I take your lead and I destroy quickly, is that not what you seek from their destruction... mercy?"
Vesperia steps back looking unbelievingly at her counterpart.
"Have you changed so Beloved? You speak of treachery and deception to allow others to make their own fate. Making their own hell of which one cannot escape? Slow, agonizing... absolute. Is this of what you speak Beloved? Is this why you resist my hand... is this why you spurn the swift annihilation of existence... because you will not be able to savor the irony of self damnation my love?" Vesperia cocks her head inquisitively to Ereshkigal as if seeking reassurance to her words to better understand the Queen's actions in spurning her longing to destroy everything swiftly... remorselessly.
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Post by Ereshkigal on Apr 10, 2009 18:28:18 GMT -6
Ereshkgial keeps her hand held out. "Why choose one course or another when all have their merit. Mercy where it is merited and torture when it is timely. Devastation and annihilation in due course."
The litle demon grins at her dark counterpart. "Yes, Vesperia, I want to make damnation a personal experience for each and every soul. You have taught me the beauty in it." She mirrors the Void creature canting her head to the opposite side and beckoning.
"Think of how much fun it will be! And we have eternity to play." Her grin grows, a dark light filling her eyes.
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