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Christopher Carrion (midnight_prince) wrote in chaosunraveled,
@ 2008-06-27 18:57:00

Current mood:	determined
Entry tags:	carrion, finished thread, glitch, rating: pg-13, setting: emptiness, setting: niflheim, setting: the tower within niflheim

Who: Carrion, Glitch [possibly open?]
Where: Asgard, and then somewhere in Emptiness, and then Niflheim
When: some hours after Una's visit to Asgard
Rating: PG-13 for safety
Warnings: None at the moment
Summary: When Carrion makes a quick trip to make a special delivery, he comes across a resident of Asgard. Curiosity piqued, Carrion decides a little chat might be interesting. Will Glitch get into trouble with the Prince of Midnight?

After walking through Emptiness and the woods, Christopher Carrion stepped out onto Asgard's fields at last. A glance up at the mansion made him hesitate, as he searched for onlookers and passersby. So far, there was no one - not even the hint of a face staring out from a window. Untold humiliation would come to him if anyone saw this Niflheimer acting so furtively, like a teenager out after curfew. Of course that was ridiculous, since he was the most comfortable out in the evening (he owned the deepest part of the night). However, he still did not want a soul to see him around Asgard.

In his hands, held close to his chest, was a small package. Within the brown-wrapping paper was a gold-plated music box, elegantly carved with images of horses and flowers. He did not recognize the tune it played, but he found it beautiful and whimsical, much like the person who was going to receive it.

While still in denial over his feelings regarding Alice Elliot, he could not deny that he wanted to better understand her. To do that, he had to be able to watch her, observe her. Therefore, hidden inside the music box, was a spying device. It was the prize he received from Lucifer for gaining Light's painful promise. How the Devil's Servant had anticipated Carrion's needs was a mystery, and Carrion wished it to remain so. Obviously Lucifer wanted to encourage the Prince in his ~~infatuation~~ interest in the kind-hearted Asgardian.

Or at least, he wanted to encourage spying in general. It didn't matter, as long as the others didn't know Carrion's true intentions.

At first he could not decide where to leave the package. At the very boundaries of Asgard? In the garden maze? No, it had to be at the entrance. He climbed the steps, careful to not trip over his long silver robes, and placed the present beside the door. Then he checked to make sure that his note was clearly visible: To Alice Elliot, from Christopher - I hope you enjoy this sincere token of friendship.

That sentence made him wince and it agitated the nightmare eels behind his collar. 'Is that too much? Is it too assuming?' He forced himself to walk back down the steps before he tried more drastic measures.

Into the woods, he quickly returned. But unfortunately for him, he would not go entirely undetected.

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synapse_glitch
2008-06-28 05:05 am UTC (link)

Glitch hadn't really been paying all that much attention to where we was going, just really wandering since he honestly kept loosing his way thanks to his very forgetful nature. He honestly didn't know how he had come to arrive in a very quaint looking town (be it rather devoid of life), but he was there all the same.

If he had known anything about this place, he would have realized that no matter where he looked, there wasn't a soul to be found. But as always, his memory didn't last long enough for him to keep the thoughts contained and he was re-entering place after place, finding not even a shop clerk which to ask.

Stopping in front of a rather large glass bay window, he quizzically pondered the small toy town that he spied in the window. There were little lights twinkling in the toy buildings, and the town diorama even included little strange figures of all types that looked to be more than just toys; as if someone took the time and care to craft things just so.

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midnight_prince
2008-06-28 05:23 am UTC (link)

Instead of skirting Emptiness like usual, Carrion decided to go through the so aptly named town. It wasn't quite like any place he had seen in his world, the Abarat, and yet the sights were familiar, from his short time spent in the world a part from the Abarat, the world called the Hereafter. Street lamps were beginning to turn on, although certainly there were no inhabitants who needed them. It was all very strange, but did not disturb Carrion at all.

There were scarier things than empty cities, and the Nightmare Man knew them all.

But it still managed to surprise him when down these very streets, a man was standing next to a toystore window. If Carrion had eyebrows, they would have been furrowed. That clothing, that stance, that metal zipper...

He didn't remember much at all of the day he spent inside that body, but he knew the name, after a bit of light research through the communication devices.

He walked up next to the window, curiosity piqued despite himself. "Mister Glitch."

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synapse_glitch
2008-06-28 05:35 am UTC (link)

Glitch had been so engrossed in the small toy town that he hadn't even noticed someone had come up next to him until they spoke. It was just the voice that caused Glitch to jump, startled and his nose hitting the glass with a thud with as close as he had been to the window itself.

Hand over his noise, Glitch stood up and looked to where the voice had come from, finding the most peculiar looking being he had encountered. They looked like a papes, only standing upon two legs instead of four; well, they did and they didn't at the same time. Papes didn't wear clothing for one, that much he remembered, and he highly doubted they would be decked in chains and a strange glass tank around part of their face.

"I, uh, do I know you?" he said behind his hand, hoping that his nose wasn't bleeding.

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midnight_prince
2008-06-28 05:46 am UTC (link)

"Not at all," Carrion assured the poor man, taking a mild satisfaction at startling Glitch. His very name, Christopher Carrion, had once struck terror into the hearts of mortals. Not so much in this realm. Nowadays, he was lucky if someone flinched at his appearance.

The lack of humble deference did sting at times.

"I know of you, however," he continued. "You're rather... special."

Special in the interest of Carrion's twisted scientific inquiry, that is.

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synapse_glitch
2008-06-28 06:03 am UTC (link)

Glitch still held his poor nose, which was currently stinging from the rather close encounter with the shop window. "Special? I rather doubt that one. Maybe once, but not now... not anymore anyway" he shook his head as just looked disbelieving of the stranger in front of him. Whom ever this was, Glitch didn't really know. He got a slight discomforting feeling from the person standing before him, but he didn't know really why, so there wasn't much he could do beyond keep an eye on them in the hopes they weren't going to do anything.

"So if you know of me, who might you be?" he inquired behind his hand, half worried they were going to say something about papes or something else to that effect. Oh, he honestly hoped this stranger wasn't with the Long Coats, he would have been in trouble if that was the case.

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midnight_prince
2008-06-28 06:18 am UTC (link)

"I'm Christopher." He refrained from adding his last name, since it wouldn't help with his already "bothersome" appearance. Though he could have created a human-looking, innocent disguise, he prefered for people to know exactly what he looked like: scarred, rough, and most importantly, intimidating.

"Not anymore? Would that have to do with your missing... brain?" He pointed toward Glitch's head. There were many fantastic creatures in his homeworld that seemed to work against the laws of nature and physics... but as far as he knew, they all had at least some form of a brain.

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synapse_glitch
2008-06-28 06:27 am UTC (link)

He thought for a moment before speaking, his hand being pulled away from his nose and exclaiming "Hey I think I know that name! But, I couldn't tell you from where... I do know it though." Glitch bit the corner of his bottom lip and tried to force his empty mind to give him the where since he did recognize it.

It dawned on him that Christopher was actually pointing at his head "Oh that... um yeah, I guess you could say that. Big empty hole up there now, but at least the zipper keeps things from getting in... well I think it does anyway." Glitch actually looked upwards and a hand involuntarily reached up to make sure the zipper tab was still in the closed position in the back of his head.

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midnight_prince
2008-06-28 06:35 am UTC (link)

Carrion nodded. "We did speak once... during a rather confusing day. My memory was affected, but I believe I told you my name."

He was slightly disappointed to see Glitch so protective of that zipper, since he was terribly curious to see what lay inside. Of course the brainless man had just told him, but the Prince was always one for hands-on experiences. "Do you know how that empty hole came to be, if you don't mind my asking?"

He wasn't really apologetic and he had no problems with prying (unless someone else was doing it). This type of interrogation was a much less painful method compared with what he did to Light.

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synapse_glitch
2008-06-28 06:51 am UTC (link)

Patting the back of his head now that he knew the zipper was indeed closed, Glitch turned his attention back to Christopher "I may be brainless, but I already know that much. It was taken because of what I knew, not that I can honestly remember what that was. And even if I knew where it was, I don't know if it could be put back into place once it is taken out."

Glitch gave a half-shrug as his attention went back to the window, looking at his own lamp-lit reflection in the glass. He doubted what he saw now was anything like he might have looked before his brain was removed, but he really didn't have anything to compare what he saw to what he knew. It was with this thought that his expression went blank for a fraction of a moment, before he blinked a few times and a slightly confused look graced his features.

It took him a few more moments to notice someone else in that very same reflection, to which he turned and brightly exclaimed with a smile and slight tilt to his head "You look familiar, do I know you from somewhere?"