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WHO: Makaria & Daphne
WHEN: Tuesday
WHERE: The park
WHAT: Makaria needs a moooooom

Makaria tried to keep up with everyone around her, but it was difficult when people rarely said exactly what they meant. They used tricky turns of phrase and expressions and sarcasm and Makaria couldn't yet manage to grasp all of that. It was too confusing.

It had been a year and a half and still Makaria found she couldn't blend in, still couldn't make friends with humans very easily. She found herself drawn to warrior types still, thinking all those that picked up a weapon must be like her heroes, but they never were. (Makaria was too sheltered to understand that she could have been hurt by them, but her hurt feelings when they rejected her felt bad enough.)

Maybe she should return to her island. Maybe Hades had been right all along to keep her there because he'd known how much she would never fit in here. She chewed her lip as she walked through the park, thinking about how many things in the world she'd miss if she returned to the underworld. But her heroes loved her, truly loved her, and they didn't think her strange.

Approaching the place she had met Daphne before she saw the nymph and gave her a smile as well as raising a hand in a wave of greeting. "Hi," she said when she was near. "I hope I'm not late? I was walking slowly."

Daphne understood being confused and lost. When she'd walked on feet again instead of having roots every little thing had made her terribly confused. Even now she didn't understand everything. But she didn't have to, and always had Artemis to turn to for questions.

She hadn't minded meeting the goddess in the park. Apollo was off gallivanting and she could be freer. She always felt like she was running from him, but that was her lot in life.

When she saw Makaria she returned the wave and rose, having picked a spot near a pond. River blooded as she was, she enjoyed the closeness of water. "No, you're not. There's no rush."

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[info]gravegarlands
2012-07-09 08:11 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Makaria smiled again and nodded. Even when agitated as she now was, her presence was a peaceful one to be around. The goddess of blessed death possessed none of the creepy vibes many of the other underworld denizens had.

"How long have you been here?" Makaria asked Daphne, not really waiting to get right into it. "I feel like it will take twenty lifetimes to understand anything up here."

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[info]laureltree
2012-07-09 08:17 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Daphne liked the calming presences more. If she'd ever been the rapid waters, she'd forgotten that during her time as a tree. She'd learned to be still and quiet.

"I don't know." she would be honest. The goddess deserved that much. "I don't say that to discourage you, but when I became aware I was still running. I was convinced Apollo was still on my heels. It took me a bit before I found out he wasn't. I didn't count the years, I just hid in the forests. When humans came upon me I was confronted with the choice to adapt or wither." She shrugged. "I adapted. I still don't understand everything, but I am different from them. As are you. That's something you'll have to learn to be comfortable with. You'll never fit in."

She gave a smile, hoping she hadn't wounded the poor girl. "This is a simple truth. Hiding from it won't change anything." She tipped her head, "why aren't you asking your father? He must have shared your experiences when he first came to this realm. Surely you'll have a basis with him. Not that I mind answering questions, mind you, just curious."

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[info]gravegarlands
2012-07-14 04:12 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Makaria pulled on the sleeves of her top, frowning down at them. "I hoped that you'd tell me you knew how to make it all easy," she admitted after a few long moments of silence had gathered around them.

With a sigh she raised her eyes and looked at the nymph. "I can't ask my father," Makaria said to her. "I sometimes think of it but then... I just can't. He put me on the island and hoped I would remain there forever, safe from some dark god who might snatch me away just as he'd done to Persephone. I think he probably wishes that I would return there."

Then she smiled at Daphne. "But you're different. In Greece you saw everything." Her tone sounded slightly awed. You moved with freedom wherever you wished, until Apollo. You have known the world in ways that I have never."

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[info]laureltree
2012-07-14 04:26 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
She gave the girl a comforting smile, "sorry. There are no easy routes. Well not naymore. Olympus used to have a ton of them but it tended to end poorly." Then she shrugged, "wishing and doing are different things. You're here. I never had a father, not like yours, so I don't understand."

"Doesn't mean I wasn't sheltered and spoiled. My river-father let me get away with vowing myself to Artemis but I wasn't like my sisters. I never went to the towns nor aspired to marry kings. My life was that of a hermit and with my companions." she sighed, "until Leucippus anyway. A boy got into my group, which was all girls, and became my closest friend. I had to kill him." She gave another shrug, "and then Apollo."

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[info]gravegarlands
2012-07-14 07:14 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Maybe it wasn't so bad to be left on an island with the dead then. It had protected her from some things, just as Hades has wished. She didn't hold it against her father, not really. After all, Persephone had been just an innocent girl once too and anyone could have just as easily taken an interest in Makaria had she not been tucked away.

But maybe that too would have been good. Persephone was wise and dark and understood the world - although Makaria still didn't like this springtime goddess she had met.

She wouldn't mind killing a friend (that didn't seem too terrible a thing when one was a death goddess) but she wouldn't have liked to be a tree, she didn't think.

Eventually Makaria sighed loudly, swinging her arms in frustration. "Why must everything be so complicated?" she demanded, although she was almost sure Daphne couldn't answer that.

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[info]laureltree
2012-07-15 07:07 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
She gave a soft laugh to that, "such is life I'm afraid." She shrugged, "Adapt or don't Makaria, I can't make the decision for you. If anything, prove everyone who thinks you cannot do it wrong. No one thought I could do what I do now, I am proving them wrong each day."

"Life would be simpler as a tree, but I'd miss all the challenges life brings."