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WHO: Makaria & Daphne
WHEN: Wednesday afternoon
WHERE: A cafe
WHAT: Greek meetings for a curious death goddess

Even after a year on the surface, Makaria had still not met very many of her own kind in person. She'd spoken to some across the internet - still an amazing piece of technology - but face to face was a different matter. She knew her father worried about her meeting some of them, but Makaria didn't understand what could really happen to her. She didn't fear death, if anyone wished her harm. She'd just return to her father's kingdom and then, eventually, to the earth once more. What was there to fear when death itself was a friend?

So it was only curiosity that Makaria felt when she felt the other immortal in the cafe she'd just entered. She looked around and followed that feeling, finally coming to stand before a dark haired woman sitting at one of the tables.

"Hello," Makaria said politely, hoping she wasn't interrupting. "You're Greek, aren't you?"

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[info]laureltree
2012-01-26 06:50 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
After the debacle with Dionysus, Daphne had just stayed in her cabin for a while. But the city held amenities her little town in Catskills simply didn't, and it was always cheaper to buy things in bulk.

So she avoided the wine bars. Her list of places to avoid was larger then she felt it should have been, but a nymph always took precautions. Especially one like her, one who remained a virgin. She knew many a God who would take that as a challenge. Avoiding things was easy though and she didn't want to get dragged into the eternal war between Dionysus and Apollo. She was surprised enough he hadn't shown up to her door, demanding to let him make sure she was alright. Granted she would have run, but she always did that.

So she knew it wasn't him when she felt the twinge of immortal and the feeling of Greek. Apollo would always make her run. Instead she got a young looking woman that smelled of goddess and felt of dead. As a nymph, Daphne knew her place so she bowed her head, "yes my lady. I am." Smiling she motioned to a chair because when it wasn't someone she had to be careful of, she could be very friendly. "Please sit?"

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[info]gravegarlands
2012-01-26 06:55 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
"Oh, I don't think I'm 'my lady' to you," Makaria told her with a slightly shy smile as she sat down. She expected that sort of respect from the dead but from the other immortals it was strange. Weren't they all the same? There was such hierarchies and having never been a part of them they were difficult for Makaria to completely grasp.

"My name's Makaria, Hades' daughter," she said to the woman. "What's yours?"

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[info]laureltree
2012-01-26 07:01 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Her eyebrows raised and she glanced around, expecting to find the Lord around the corner. Hades never made her worry, but Hades had only ever shown interest in one nymph, and now his wife. But she looked back to the young goddess and smiled. "But you are. You are a goddess, a daughter of one of the Sons of Cronus. I am but a nymph."

"Daphne. The laurel," despite all the mixed emotions that brought up, it was who she was now. "Daughter of the river Ladon, or Peneios depending, and devoted nymph to the Lady Artemis."

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[info]gravegarlands
2012-01-26 07:05 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
"I know some of the nymphs," Makaria said brightly, always glad when she knew or understood something up here on the surface. "The ones that live below. It's very nice to meet you nymph Daphne. I've never met Artemis. What's she like?"

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[info]laureltree
2012-01-26 07:27 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Daphne knew little of the nymphs that chose to stay below. She couldn't understand it. She hated and feared the representation of the sun, but still needed it's rays. "Like many of the others I suppose," she smiled, her admiration clear, "very kind and gentle, but strict when needed. I have served her for many years and she has always been kind to me."

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[info]gravegarlands
2012-01-26 07:39 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
"I don't know what it's like to serve another," Makaria mused. "I am loyal to my father and he is my King, but I do not truly think of him as My Lord. Why did you choose to serve her?" she tilted her head, truly curious. Why did so many of them do the things they did?

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[info]laureltree
2012-01-26 07:49 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
This girl-goddess was very innocent. Daphne had this idea that someone would take that and ruin it. Daphne had no doubt that she was well protected, but even things like that could slip. "It's a bit of a long story."

Smiling she set her hands on the table, "I didn't want to marry. I never have. I liked being my own person, not being held accountable to anyone. And in those days, as a woman and a nymph, you didn't have a lot of choice. It was marry, or take the vows. I've always loved to hunt and swearing to Artemis seemed like it was the easiest thing to do. She was my Lady long before anything. I got to stay independent and I enjoyed it." She smiled, "of course I wouldn't be here if the Gods hadn't taken note of me. Eros and Apollo fought, and I was used as a pawn." So many of her sisters got that lot though. IT really wasn't fair. "but I was fortunate. Both Lady Gaia and my Lady Artemis heard my pleas as I fled. I turned into a tree, but Apollo never broke my vows for me. To this day I keep them."

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[info]gravegarlands
2012-01-26 07:54 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Makaria frowned as she listened to the story and finally she said, "I do not think that I should like to be a tree." It sounded long and lonely and cold. "Aren't you lonely without love?" Makaria asked, and although Daphne probably heard that question a lot, Makaria was truly confused. She saw how her father was sad when Persephone went away and sometimes Makaria herself wondered about boys and whether it would be nice to have someone of her own.

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[info]laureltree
2012-01-26 08:00 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
She frowned, "I don't remember much about it. Just a stillness and quiet, of being connected to something." She shrugged, "it was like a very long sleep to me." She smiled, not minding the question. "I have love though. I love my sister, I love my Lady, I have friends I love so dearly. But I do not miss romantic love. I never felt it so I can't miss it. I admit if I had to take the vows now I would have to think harder and it would be harder to keep them, but that's because women have so many more rights now. I'm plenty satisfied with the things I have now though." then she gave a wry grin, "besides if I wanted to get out of my vows, which I'm sure if I explained Lady Artemis may understand, and found someone; Apollo would eat their skulls for breakfast."

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[info]gravegarlands
2012-01-26 08:32 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
"I think if I ever fell in love," Makaria said, "then my papa would do the same as Apollo. I don't think I could ever take a vow like that, but I don't think I need one. On the Isles of the Blessed there were lots of men - all of the heroes who died - but none of them thought of me like that."

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[info]laureltree
2012-01-26 08:43 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
It was very strange to discuss this with a goddess, but this one seemed friendly enough. So she smiled, "I don't think you're right there. Below, obviously they respected you. And feared your father. They saw you as a guardian, not someone they could touch. Now it's different. I think, if you truly fell in love, your father would grumble and threaten, but he'd accept it." Smiling she dared and set her fingers on Makaria's hand. "This I know because when I defied my father's wishes to become an eternal virgin he accepted it. All fathers do, eventually. He fears to lose you, as my father lost me."

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[info]gravegarlands
2012-01-26 09:02 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Makaria really liked Daphne, she had decided. She liked this nymph maybe better than any of the other Gods she'd met on the surface. She gripped suddenly onto that hand that touched hers and smiled. "Can we be friends, Daphne?"

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[info]laureltree
2012-01-26 09:07 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
She blinked before smiling. "Of course we can be friends." She wouldn't say no to a goddess either way, but she did like Makaria. And she seemed like she needed someone who could offer a bit of advice without a bias.

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[info]gravegarlands
2012-01-26 10:10 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Makaria smiled brightly when Daphne assented. "I'm glad," she told her. "I don't have any immortal friends, only my family. And sometimes everything up here on the surface is still confusing to me."

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[info]laureltree
2012-01-26 10:16 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Smiling she patted Makaria's hand, "I was much the same when I first woke up. I'll tell you what I know, without reserve." She didn't think many people did that for her. "What would you like to know?"