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Tweak says, "it's too late to apologize"

Lucifer (1st_lord) wrote in chaosunraveled,
@ 2008-09-19 16:40:00

Entry tags:

alessa, blythe, finished thread, flauros, frank, jazz, l, mitchell, rating: pg-13

Trial End
Who: All representatives
When: The last day of the trial.
Where: The place only trial members can go, that ceremony place.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none at the moment
Summary: One by one, everyone shows up to meet with the Sphinx. Due to the mod issues, this isn't going to be a big thread, just one where people come in, post giving (or not giving) what they've found / figured out to Sphinx, and getting a reply from her. (If anyone by some chance did not get a riddle from me, though I THINK I got everyone, just email my mod email and i'll immediately share the riddle and its answer, and then you can decide if s/he solved it or not. D= I apologize for this. Otherwise, by default it'll be an unsolved one and that team won't get a point...?)

Metatron and Lucifer had rounded up all the representatives - no one but the representatives could enter this place - and the time came for each person to bring their findings to the Sphinx, who waited in that same dark area beyond the large doors. The darkness was vast, as it had been before. Yet this time there was no throne. Sphinx simply stood, her cloak gleaming in the light given by the two candles on either side of her.

[ooc: short post is short. D= ]

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luke_lawliet
2008-09-20 01:15 am UTC (link)

Mercury, sulfur, and salt...

L knew the answer to his riddle... he knew it well, and he desperately wanted to be recognized for it. It had been a great deal of hard work, and to let Asgard down would do nothing for his standing. However, gaining the trust of Light... he'd had an important decision to make.

Mercury, sulfur, and salt.

Approaching the Sphinx and keeping his head bowed, L set an apple on the floor in front of him, and then quickly walked away before Light could see him there.

However...

For himself, for Asgard, for Blythe, L had been unable to throw the Trial entirely. He had removed the core of the apple from the bottom, and carefully replaced it with a sulfur crystal, a bit of salt, and a trickle of mercury from a broken thermometer, all tied together in a misshapen but even globe. The symbol for man's temptation and sin enveloped his presentation to the Sphinx and disguised it from any who might see it, but at the core was Prima Materia, pure and true as the eternal soul of humanity.

With no way to examine the apple closely, Light would have no possible way of discovering what L had done. Neither would a member of Asgard, if indeed the deception would suffice to solve the riddle. L would maintain that he had failed and accept the shame, but in the grand scheme of things, he wanted to have his cake and eat it, too. He wanted to take Light's life and feel like he'd atoned for the sins of his own which had hurt Asgard.

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