harmonia (harmonia) wrote in mount_olympus, @ 2008-06-30 19:21:00 |
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It was funny, really... how much a person could take for granted something as simple as the ability to walk without fear of falling flat on their face. Yet, since Apollo had done his dastardly deed, she'd lost her perfect balance... and it made everything, even walking a chore.
This is why she'd decided to spend any time not doing anything else sitting, or lying down. There was, she found, a particular art to such laziness... laying in one's bed for hours at a time was depressing, and made you seem pathetic. Lying in a hammock, with one's puppy nearby, however - well, that was relaxing, and not nearly so bad. Having decided all brothers with wings were crazy, and not knowing where Dei and Bos were, and having not been invited to the party Strife was at (And seriously not wanting to go anyway... they were all so mean to her)... She found herself napping in the hammock when she felt it.
It wasn't anything physical, really... in fact, at first she didn't quite trust what she was feeling. The tug and pull of everyone in the Pantheon that she usualyl felt, balancing themselves out like a scale in her head... it was a subtle feeling when she wasn't concentrating, but all of a sudden she could *feel* her parents again, the balance between love and war, the entire spectrum.... For one glorious moment it was back in her head, loud like a wave then quickly dampered to a barely there sort of tickling.
Opening her eyes she looked at the warhound curled near her.
"Graegus... What was that? Did you feel it?"
She had no idea, really, if Graegus had been affected at all... He was always pretty sweet and nice near her, and they hadn't tried taking him on a battlefield to see if he still ate souls or had somehow turned into some freaky butterfly chasing pooch... but the dog just looked at her like she was a bit crazy, then woofed.
"I don't know. It was there, then it was gone. Or... wait. It's not. Shall we test it?"
Again the blank look, then Graegus put his head back down on his paws, closing his eyes... She thought he'd be a bit happier about things, really.
Rolling out of the hammock, she took a few steps, and grinned. She felt fine. No inner ear weirdness, no feeling of vertigo... She leaned down, nuzzling the dog's head, then sprinted over towards a long wall, nimbly climbing to the top and pulling herself to standing, walking along the length... Balance was a beautiful thing.