Who: Atlas & Asteria What: Star-Titans reuniting for the first time since childhood When: Thursday night Where: Forest outside the city
There were few things Atlas enjoyed more than watching the sky. Very few, actually. Studying the constellations and the movements of the heavens was something he'd been doing since ancient times, but it would never become boring to him. He could happily sit all night and watch the stars burning in the sky.
Which is precisely what his plans were for tonight. There was a patch of forest outside the city that offered the best views of the sky, and he had yet to be bothered there by man, god, or beast. He set up the portable telescope he'd brought with him and started looking around for the best position for it.
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[info]thefallingstar 2012-04-20 12:28 pm UTC (link) Track This Although her husband and daughter were there, Asteria still needed to get out of the city sometimes. She needed the open spaces and she needed to not be crowded by so many voices and hands. She had been an island and in that stone she had been silent and still. She didn't miss being rock, but she sometimes missed the quiet that came with it.
There was a forested place that Asteria had found months ago and she used it as her place of solitude tonight. But even as she approached she could feel the presence of another like herself up ahead, and as she continued to draw closer the presence became more clear to her. Titan and distantly familiar.
When she stepped into the clearing and set her eyes on the man she didn't recognise him. Who are you? was the question in her eyes, but but instead she flatly said, "this is my place."
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[info]spinningheavens 2012-04-20 12:38 pm UTC (link) Track This Atlas turned around at the voice. No one knew about this place, or so he thought. And now there was another Titan standing there, telling him it was hers? But he bit down on the sarcastic comment, for the moment. Something about her was niggling at the back of his mind, another moment and he'd put his finger on it.
"Didn't see your name on it," he said instead, adjusting the telescope again. "Stay, or not, as you choose. It doesn't bother me."
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[info]thefallingstar 2012-04-20 01:16 pm UTC (link) Track This Asteria moved again, approaching with quietly crunching steps across the plant litter below her. A creature of the night hours, Asteria had no trouble seeing in the darkness, but that wasn't helping her to place his face. She stopped a few feet from him, narrowing her eyes in suspicion. "I know you," she told him.
It wasn't just shared Titan blood. It was something else.
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[info]spinningheavens 2012-04-20 01:29 pm UTC (link) Track This Atlas did not flinch or back up as she approached him, the way she moved stirring something in the depths of his memory. This close, it was easier to study her face and try to remember. "And I know you..." he said thoughtfully. It was right there on the tip of his tongue...
"It feels like I knew you when I was young. Quite young," he said at last.
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[info]thefallingstar 2012-04-20 01:33 pm UTC (link) Track This She tried then to picture that face of his as it would have belonged to a child, tried to strip away the years in her mind. Finally Asteria tilted her head a little and asked, "Atlas?"
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[info]spinningheavens 2012-04-20 01:35 pm UTC (link) Track This And it clicked like tumblers falling into place. "Asteria," he said. "It's good to see you. Too many years have passed."
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[info]thefallingstar 2012-04-20 01:49 pm UTC (link) Track This She smiled then, an expression becoming easier and easier the more time she spent with her family. "I truly didn't expect to see you again," she told him. "And especially not here."
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[info]spinningheavens 2012-04-20 02:24 pm UTC (link) Track This "The feeling is mutual, given that the last I heard, you were an island," he said, returning her smile. "And I'm glad that you are not one anymore. How have you been?"
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[info]thefallingstar 2012-04-20 02:32 pm UTC (link) Track This "Last I heard, you were holding up the heavens," Asteria countered. Neither of them had exactly done well with the takeover of the Olympians. In answer to his question she made a light gesture towards her own form. "Flesh and ichor once more."
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[info]spinningheavens 2012-04-20 02:42 pm UTC (link) Track This "Touche," he replied. "It seems we've both managed to slip our chains, and all the better for us."
"So you are," he agreed with a nod. "And you've come out here tonight to watch the stars? Best spot in the city for it. Since it's not in the city."
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[info]thefallingstar 2012-04-20 02:47 pm UTC (link) Track This "Now if only those that had inflicted the punishments could be removed permanently," Asteria said with bitterness, her lip curling a little at the thought of Zeus and Poseidon.
"I have," Asteria said, turning her attention to the sky. Each star was bright and vibrant to her eyes, and she saw that ocean of lights in a way no mortal ever would. It made her feel sorry for them. "I live now in the city - my family are there - but I need to escape it occasionally." Asteria hadn't thought about Atlas for a very long time, but she remembered now the long childhood hours together they had spent gazing up at the night sky.
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[info]spinningheavens 2012-04-20 03:53 pm UTC (link) Track This Atlas nodded, a cloud settling over his face. "I couldn't agree more," he replied. "Olympians are a plight on the world."
"I have as well," he said. "Each constellation is like a familiar face. It brings some small peace to study them again." She mentioned her family, and he nodded. "I'm pleased for you. My wife is here, and two of my brothers, as well as my parents. If only my daughters would appear, things would be as they were."
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[info]thefallingstar 2012-04-22 09:28 am UTC (link) Track This "My daughter," Asteria said with obvious pride, "my Hecate, she turned Zeus to stone a few months ago." A small smile. "She did it for me. Sadly he has since retained his flesh state, but it seems he may have left the city. My girl, she is stronger than all of them."
"Centuries old and still we are with out parents then," Asteria said, amused at the idea. "Do you remember the nights that we would run free from them to be alone with the sky?" she asked Atlas. "The secret stories of the constellations we shared? Such hidings Coeus gave me for my disobedience." She laughed.