Demeter ∾ Δημήτηρ (thesmophoros) wrote in nevermore_logs, @ 2011-11-08 07:24:00 |
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Entry tags: | demeter, hecate |
WHO: Demeter & Hecate
WHEN: Monday night
WHERE: Demeter's soon-to-be restaurant.
WHAT: Killing loneliness
WARNINGS: tba
Since the first day of November (the first day that Persephone had been once again taken, weeping, from her arms) Demeter had been doing everything in her power to keep busy. If she stopped now, so early into winter, then she'd have trouble getting herself started again. If she thought too much of how scared Persephone had been then she wouldn't be able to take it.
And if she thought about what had become of them both the last time, then she might tear out of own eyes in horror.
No, it was important to just keep her mind on other things, like the restaurant that was coming together. Demeter had always liked owning restaurants because it let her do one of the things she liked best: making sure the mortals were contented and well fed. She often didn't end up working all that much in them, entrusting that to employees who wouldn't argue when she showed up without notice and wanted to take over some aspect of the kitchen. (They rarely argued. Demeter had always treated those that worked for her kindly and they always got their pay.)
Kitchen goods and crockery sat unpacked it boxes across the tables, the carpet and furniture all covered with plastic to protect it from the paint she was applying, the golden-brown of ripe wheat.
She didn't bother to lock the doors at the front, anyone coming in to harm her she couldn't keep out anyway and any mortal was no match. So instead of being concerned about any who passed by the glass windows covered in newspaper, Demeter focused on the gold of the walls.
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-08 08:53 am UTC (link) Track This
Hecate was looking forward to seeing Demeter again. She didn't see her friend enough and it wasn't like it was new to try and cheer up Demeter through winter. The mortals called Hecate a daughter of the harvest goddess at times and while Hecate never called her such she'd used Demeter for a sounding board during the time they'd looked for Persephone.
Well, mostly Hecate had talked about her ghosts and her then new marriage to Hermes, and how odd it all was. And when they'd found Persephone she'd took Demeter to the side and told her that she'd become the girl's minister, so Persephone had someone who would keep her safe when Demeter couldn't. It hadn't been necessary but she could see how Demeter had appreciated it.
So now she walked to the restaurant, Hekuba beside her. The old Queen was never leashed, and Hecate took her everywhere. Once at the door she frowned before pushing it open. She could feel Demeter inside, so she knocked while pushing it open. "Knock knock." Once inside she glanced around nad set a hand on the dog's head, "stay." Smiling she walked to Demeter and glanced to the gold, "secrets of the universe? Because it's 42."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-08 09:23 am UTC (link) Track This
"Really?" Demeter asked, setting down the paint roller. "And I thought it would be something more complicated than that." She smiled a little and then went to embrace the other woman. Demeter was cousin to Hecate's mother but she'd never even met that woman. Hecate she knew well though. Hecate had seen her through some of the darkest times in her life and even now it was sometimes only the knowledge that Hecate could be there to care for Persephone that stopped Demeter from fighting against this.
"It's really good to see you."
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-08 09:33 am UTC (link) Track This
Smiling she returned the hug, "nope. The hardest questions have the simplest answers. We just don't see them. We're too focused on finding the answer we think should fit." she drew back and set her hand on Demeter's cheek. "Always lovely to see you." Smiling she drew back and looked around, "I like the place. It looks great so far. Need any help keeping it safe?"
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-08 01:42 pm UTC (link) Track This
"I think it should be safe enough from trouble," Demeter said, looking around the half painted expanse of it. "But you know I'd never refuse one of your wards." She might get Hecate to do her apartment as well, to keep her brothers at bay, or at least Poseidon. He was the only one that insisted on constantly putting himself in her path.
"This wall is the only one finished so far," she told Hecate, pointing across to the long one that stood opposite them. Along with the gold of the walls, four Doric columns had been painted that were twined with tendrils of the plants sacred to her (wheat, barley, mint, and poppy) and hidden amongst the leaves and the blooms, some of her sacred animals could be seen: There a serpent, there a dove, there a gecko, and even one of the darling winged serpents that had pulled her chariot, here much tinier than they're even been in Greece.
"The pillars are only for this wall," Demeter said, looking around them, "but the artist is going to come in and continue on with the plants along the top of the others."
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-08 06:21 pm UTC (link) Track This
She nodded, "I can do it now if you like? I'm here and not busy. I could be indisposed for a few, whenever Zeus wakes up." She shrugged and grinned, "whoops. It's really, really, really not supposed to take that long. Shows me for thinking the more power the better. Anyway, I'd rather do it when I'm available. Best to do it quickly."
She studied the wall and smiled. "I love it. Whoever this artist is, they're amazing." She glanced to the snakes, "I never got the snakes. I get them, sort of, for me but I always wonder why they gave you them too." She shrugged again before pausing and remembering how Demeter had gotten pregnant, "besides the obvious turning into a snake thing." She smirked, "kinky."
She shook her head, "you Olympians and your animals, and before you start I just turn people into them. I don't turn into them." She was teasing though.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-08 10:51 pm UTC (link) Track This
Demeter raised an eyebrow in interest and surprise but then dropped it quickly. She had heard whispers that it had been Hecate's handiwork that had gotten Zeus like this, but now she knew for sure. She would say nothing about that, but Zeus deserved everything he got. "Yes, alright," Demeter nodded. "Tonight will work. I was going to open a bottle of wine if you'd like? It's from Dionysus."
"I'm a kinky woman," Demeter agreed with a smirk of her own for her companion. She had always enjoyed that her sexuality had been bound to no man. There were very few goddesses in the pantheon who could say the same. Even Aphrodite had had to marry - twice - while going about her affairs, but Demeter had never wed and her tastes were expansive.
She looked back to the wall. "Yes, he's very talented. A mortal artist I've hired before. The snakes though are a symbol of rebirth in nature, that what is gone and cold will always return once more to life. I've always had a fondness for them. Besides, they kept the rodents from devouring all the grain." Practical concerns would always shape the goddess of agriculture.
Demeter smiled brightly - more brightly than she had since Persephone had gone underground - and said, "you're missing out. Certainly nothing wrong with trying some new positions, and what's more new than being something else at the time?"
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-08 11:34 pm UTC (link) Track This
With a nod she drew out a slim dagger, then extended her free palm. "I need a bit of blood. Works better that way. That way no one who you don't want coming in, can come in. Won't do 'keep eating here' wards though. Those are called advertising." She smirked and walked to the door. "And I would never deny wine from Dionysus."
"I'm married to Peitho," she grinned, "want to compare notes?" Hecate had married out of necessity and desire. And as a second wife and then only sometimes, she had a lot of freedom. "I just get the poison."
She laughed, "I am married to Hermes you know. Been there, done that. Besides I think the shapeshifting is an Olympian thing. I can't recall any Titan who does it." She patted the ground beside her as she sat near the threshold. It just worked better that way. "Alright, booze and blood. Now this is just magic. It'll make burglars not want to rob the place as much, but it's not foolproof. Security is Hermes' job."
She smiled, "alright first thing that pops into your head. No thinking. I say symbol, you say?"
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 01:14 am UTC (link) Track This
Demeter had no problem with giving her blood over to Hecate, and if it would keep her brothers away from this place that she wished to make a sanctuary to humans then all the better.
"I'm sure your double marriage has taught you much," Demeter told her old friend with amusement. With Peitho, Demeter had had very little dealings, but Hermes she knew better. Hermes had wanted to marry Persephone and she had denied him. Looking back on it, Demeter wished that she had consented. Both Hecate and Peitho seemed happy with him, and perhaps he was not so bad a man as she had once believed in her over-protectiveness. Perhaps Persephone could have had Hecate as her own loving sister-wife and only Demeter's selfishness had cast her into the darkness where she now was.
Demeter forced her thoughts away from such paths and instead joined Hecate on the floor. She wasn't sure of the purpose of the word games now, but when Hecate asked Demeter replied, "torch." (Perhaps it shouldn't have been surprising. Burning torches were imagery they shared in common.)
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 03:31 am UTC (link) Track This
Almost gently she let the dagger cut into Demeter's hand, letting some blood spring up before nodding. "Symbols have power. Just makes this place more yours." On both sides of the doorway she drew a small torch with Demeter's blood before starting to carve symbols into the wood.
She smiled, "only the good things." Not that she didn't want someone closer at times. She loved Hermes, but she came after Peitho, and sometimes she wanted to be first. But she could do as she liked and had no one to explain anything to. It worked out.
"Alright, who are we keeping out?" She'd rather ask. She could make guesses but those wouldn't work as well.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 12:19 pm UTC (link) Track This
Demeter nodded as Peitho explained what she was doing, and she held her hand out delicately as she watched the witch-Titan work.
When asked for names, Demeter's expression was stone. "Poseidon," she told Hecate firmly. "Hades and Zeus. I want none of my brothers crossing that threshold."
She hoped she wouldn't need the ward against Zeus, because if he came here and found out there was one then he was likely to be displeased. But Zeus didn't pay attention to the affairs of other gods unless he wanted something.
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 12:42 pm UTC (link) Track This
"Two out of three," she gave a sigh and started carving the symbols of Zeus and Poseidon. "And before you say anything, he's out of my reach. Hades is. It's not because we're friends." Because they were. She liked Hades. He was always nice and polite to her and never forgot how to treat her.
"It's because of a few things. I have power over earth, sea, and sky. So Zeus and Poseidon I can kick out on their ass. I also know their names and symbols. All of it has power. Hades' name, well are we even sure it's his name? Is the place named after the person, or the person named after the place?" She wanted Demeter to understand that logic. "Hades is the only one out of your siblings whose name we aren't sure of. He also lacks a symbol. Poseidon has the trident, Zeus the lightning bolt, Hades has something but he won't make direct references to him. He's called the unseen one, and so I can't ward against him." She made a face, "and I didn't teach him that." She gave Demeter a small smile. "But I'll tell him. Conflicts aren't his thing."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 12:51 pm UTC (link) Track This
"He's shown up at my door before," Demeter told Hecate after taking all that in. It was disquieting the things that Hecate said about her brother, but in part she always knew them. Her brother had always had mysteries, even when they'd been close. "He should know by now where he isn't welcome."
Then without looking at Hecate, Demeter held her breath and whispered, "have you seen her?" Her voice was barely audible but she couldn't repeat it.
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 01:04 pm UTC (link) Track This
She blinked and frowned, "Who, Hades?" She titled her head, "or the other two? And out of the three, has Hades come back? You see a certain side of him Demeter, and that's fine, but some logic can't be ignored." She sighed. "I imagine he does Demeter, but he's not a mindreader. You do have to let him know which boundaries he can't cross. And it isn't as simple anymore. The rules are different here."
She took Demeter's hand, "I'm going for a visit soon, but I know she's well. She's adjusting." She smiled.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 01:09 pm UTC (link) Track This
"Perhaps I do only see one side to him, but I have good reason for that." Demeter set her jaw, unwilling to let her emotions overwhelm her. "He's your friend, but for me he's the reason I have to hold my daughter every year while she sobs and pleads to stay with me, and you have no concept of what this is like."
She stood then, her fingers slipping free from Hecate before she used them to wipe at the sudden tears in her eyes. "I would give anything in this world for Kore's happiness, and it's not enough."
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 01:20 pm UTC (link) Track This
Despite Asteria being like stone now, Hecate preferred the quiet Titan's way of mothering over Demeter's. Demeter held too tight, and Hecate knew she'd have choked in it. She set her hands on her lap. "No. I don't know what that's like," her voice was laced with pain she felt herself, "because I'll never have it. Hermes has plenty of kids and you don't know how it hurts to know none of them will be mine. You're not the only one with pain and sacrifice Demeter. I'd appreciate it if you didn't take it out on me."
She shrugged, "what is, is. What was, was. Time and actions cannot be rewritten. Persephone is happy when she adjusts to her role. When she's with you, she is also happy. She loves both of you." She looked back to the doorway and went back to her warding. "She was born to fill this role, and somewhere she knows that or she wouldn't have taken the seeds."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 01:29 pm UTC (link) Track This
When Demeter thought of the Iron Queen she remembered only the monster that she had met not so long ago, the thing she had wanted to murder as much as it wanted to murder her. Was that what Persephone was down in the darkness? A thing of viciousness and cruelty and evil? She'd thought of that in the nights while Persephone slept curled at her side and looking down at her beautiful girl's face, she'd been afraid. There were parts of Persephone that Demeter would never know, but after just a glimpse of it Demeter didn't want to see more.
"I apologize," she whispered, her back still to Hecate. Then she turned back towards her, expression once more set. "Do you need more blood?" Demeter asked, as though there had been no tears, no discussion of these painful subjects. "Or is this finished now?"
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 01:42 pm UTC (link) Track This
Hecate had a feeling Demeter wasn't really sorry. Olympians were champions of grudges and angst. But she wouldn't keep prodding at this. "No, I don't need more blood but I'm not done just yet." With a frown she pricked her own fingers and drew her own symbols along the threshold. When she finished she set her hands on the wood of the doorframe before letting out some of her power.
She heard a dog bark before opening her eyes and looking around. Then she smiled. "That's that. Put some sort of light near the door as a symbol of torches and it should hold. Mind you if they push they can get in, but it'll take a bit and I'll know and you'll know."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 01:45 pm UTC (link) Track This
"It's a comfort to know the people here will be safer though," Demeter nodded and gave her a small smile. Then she took Hecate's hands, their blood mingling a little. "Let's talk now only of happy things," she said to her. "I'll open the wine and try not to drag you down into my terrible moods, for you are a dear friend to me, always when I need it most."
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 01:54 pm UTC (link) Track This
She shrugged and smiled. "It's what I do." She squeezed Demeter's hands. "And I am so not going to say no to wine." And she nodded, "again, burglars are less inclined but they may try. I'll kick Hermes to install something here." She was happy to switch subjects. "Oh hey, did I tell you one of his granddaughters is working for me now? Sweet kid, and she's good at it. We had a ghost chat a bit ago."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 01:58 pm UTC (link) Track This
"That would be good," Demeter agreed, leading Hecate out into the kitchen, all tiles and silver benches, things piled in here as well. "Keeping burglars at bay is something left to the professionals like him."
From one of the boxes, Demeter drew out a bottle of wine and went in search of a bottle opener. "No, I hadn't heard. I knew that he had contact with a few of his relations, but I wasn't aware that any of them were working for gods. Has the girl inherited any of her grandfather's skills?""
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 02:05 pm UTC (link) Track This
She shrugged, "Not sure. She wants to focus on magic so I'm teaching her. She's got some medium skills thanks to him I guess." She smirked, "I have yet to receive cows though, so we'll see." She sat herself down on one of he chairs and looked around. She liked this place already. She'd probably come when she could.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 02:17 pm UTC (link) Track This
"I would hope for no cows," Demeter said as she opened the bottle. "They're difficult to clean up after." With a smile she poured them both a glass of Dionysus' rich red wine. "Although he can feel free to lead them through this kitchen after they've turned into mince."
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 02:24 pm UTC (link) Track This
Laughing she took the wine and sipped from it. She knew better then to rush drinking Dionysus' wine. She'd be on the floor in minutes. "Don't tell him that because he will. And he'd do it in front of customers too all 'excuse me, just bringing the next hamburger'." She smirked, "I love him, but he's a brat." Then she brightened like nothing else. "Thanatos has a girlfriend." She saw absolutely nothing wrong with Death having a lover. It was about time he joined society. "And he's being adorable about it. It's horribly sweet."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 02:35 pm UTC (link) Track This
"The spirit of death has a girlfriend?" Demeter didn't even try to keep the surprise from her expression or her voice. She couldn't even picture such a thing. She'd been in her presence only once or twice in her long history and she still couldn't imagine it. Then she paused with her glass halfway to her lips and looked at Hecate, remembering something. "Oh... a pretty negro girl?"
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 02:40 pm UTC (link) Track This
She about choked on her wine and reminded herself to drag Demeter into current times. "African-American Demeter. That word is slander now. No one uses it." She smiled and nodded, "but yeah. Best thing since sliced bread if you hear him talking about her. I say good luck to him. Thanatos is a nice guy. Let him have some happiness really."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 02:48 pm UTC (link) Track This
Of course it was, Demeter had known that. She'd just temporarily forgotten. It was so hard to recall all the things like that that kept changing. She nodded her understanding to Hecate.
Taking a sip of her wine she told Hecate, "I believe that I've met this girl of his. I threatened her life."
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 03:02 pm UTC (link) Track This
She blinked, "well that's awkward." She wasn't really sure what else to say about that. Thanatos clearly didn't know. Di Nocti weren't known to be very forgiving and even if Death could do nothing she was pretty sure he'd ask his siblings. "I wouldn't tell him."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 03:18 pm UTC (link) Track This
"We have little reason to cross paths," Demeter assured her friend. "It was during my months of rage, and I murdered one of the Keres as well, so no Death is my friend these days." (Although the remaining Keres she had seen since the murder of their sister. The one with the sewn lips had been strangely accepting of Demeter's apology.)
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 03:23 pm UTC (link) Track This
She'd make a joke, but she wouldn't press on it. "It'll be forgiven soon, and he won't hurt you. He can't, but yeah." She shrugged. "Anyway, lets see if theres any other gossip you may have missed."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 03:29 pm UTC (link) Track This
"Probably all of it," Demeter said with a roll of her eyes as she took another sip from her glass. "Since last winter I've not quite been myself or paying attention. Speak to me more of your comings and goings."
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 03:36 pm UTC (link) Track This
"Oh goodness," she frowned then smiled. "I have my mama back. She's got some healing to do, but she'll get there. And dad's around again too." She loved her parents deeply, she couldn't hide that. "And I met my grandmother, which was amazing. And otherwise I'm just quiet. I sell my things, I teach. I just am. It's nice. I have seven puppies again. Other then that I'm pretty boring."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 03:39 pm UTC (link) Track This
"So much family," Demeter said and her smile was warm and open. "Hecate, that's wonderful for you, truly it is. There is nothing more wonderful than to be surrounded by such love."
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 03:50 pm UTC (link) Track This
Smiling she glanced to her glass of wine and nodded. "It is. It really is. I missed my parents. I didn't even know how until I had them again." She glanced to Demeter. "It's why I did it, hurt Zeus. He took my mother. I didn't take to that well."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 03:59 pm UTC (link) Track This
"I starved the world and let half of humanity die," Demeter reminded her with a small, sad smile. "You don't need to tell me of what we do when people we love are taken from us."
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 04:19 pm UTC (link) Track This
She was getting really good at going to really awkward topics of conversation. Instead of saying anything she sipped from her wine. It seemed safer.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 04:27 pm UTC (link) Track This
"Tell me about your teaching," Demeter said to her, determined to not fall into sorrow again so soon. "Is it the mortals you guide?"
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 04:37 pm UTC (link) Track This
"Sometimes," she grabbed the change of topic with both hands. This was why Underworld Gods didn't get out much. They were not great at social skills. "Whoever asks really. I got plenty of pagans praying to me, I'm just trying to teach those I can to do it right. I teach a bit of everything, except necromancy. That's on very special request only."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 04:46 pm UTC (link) Track This
"Ah, the pagans," Demeter said, lifting her glass with a smile. "They've been very good to some of us." Demeter was, thankfully, among those adored in their modern worship along with Hecate. So many saw Demeter as their great mother goddess and it gave her strength more than so many other fading figures.
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 04:50 pm UTC (link) Track This
She nodded, "they get it a bit wrong but it's alright. I'm there to guide them along the way. It's also what I do." Smiling she downed the last of her wine.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 05:01 pm UTC (link) Track This
"And I'm sure you do it well," Demeter said, finishing her own glass before refilling for both of them. She looked around the kitchen with a smile and stood again. "I am very looking forward to opening this place. I've missed the experience of feeding people." Looking back to Hecate she said, "Triton is coming to dine with me this week, bringing along his mortal lover and his newly found mortal sister. Poor things to have that creature for their father."
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 05:06 pm UTC (link) Track This
She laughed and made a face. "I keep forgetting how much siblings he's got and yeah. He asked me to help keep her safe so I gave her a few things. Apparently there was some issue with Triton dating her." She smiled, "You can come make me dinner anytime you want. I eat very unhealthy. Mostly take out."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 05:11 pm UTC (link) Track This
"I feel for the mortals who get wrapped up in the affairs of Olympians," Demeter said. "We are not kind as a whole and we punish freely. Yes, I can admit my temper and faults," she smiled at Hecate, a little amused. (Although she still felt that everyone she'd cursed in her long life was completely justified. It was the others who were the real unreasonable ones.)
"Oh Hecate, that's terribly disheartening to hear." The Earth Mother shook her head. "I'll have to make sure that the managers I leave here know to feed the young woman from the magic shop."
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[info]torchywitch
2011-11-09 05:23 pm UTC (link) Track This
"I wasn't going to say anything," she grinned though, enjoying it when the conversation was less about awkward things. "But yeah you Olympians and your grudges." She shook her head and sipped from her wine.
Then she gave a victorious grin. Few people would not accept meals from Demeter herself. "Wonderful and it's not always my fault. I just forget and it's just me. Ironically enough I remember to feed the puppies though."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-09 05:31 pm UTC (link) Track This
"I suspect they don't let you forget to feed them. Animals and children are far more demanding when it comes to meal times. But yes, I'll make sure you're always welcome here. I may have to start sending you care packages," Demeter considering, running a hand through her hair as she relaxed a little more into the plastic chair she sat in, the wine warming her through. "We cannot have you wasting away."
She shook her head with a grin, "nope. They're very vocal and if I do forget, Hekuba doesn't. Those are her puppies too and she loves fussing." She smiled to the old Queen. "Probably because she couldn't do a lot of it when she was still human."
"I doubt that will happen, but I'll take the offer."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-11-10 08:16 am UTC (link) Track This
Demeter stood and from a side bench she collected a basket of bread rolls and brought them over. "Baked freshly today," she said, reaching for the jam and cream and cheeses that she'd set aside on a tray earlier. "Let's picnic in the other room with the wine," she smiled at Hecate. "Give the room our blessing before the mortals come to eat here."