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Catherine St. Giles ✩ Nyx (full_of_stars) wrote in paxletalelogs,
@ 2011-10-17 13:53:00

Entry tags:

erebos, nyx

Unknown the Unlit World of Old
Who: Nyx and Erebos
What: Dream History! Whut?
Where: Dreamland, the Greek Underworld
When: Before recorded history/last night
Warnings: None yet!

She was alone.

This place wasn't real, but it was as she remembered; the very edge of the world, a place that had existed before all else. She remembered her mother, whom she hadn't seen in so much time she'd forgotten what time was. Her children -- all her sweet, beautiful children, all faded away, gone to sleep. She knew they continued to exist, just as she did, but not as they had, and only in memory, in relics.

But this awareness itself indicated that something was changing. She felt herself stirring, she felt the draw of this new world where they didn't know her name. Her legs hung over the edge as she looked down on the half-formed earth, all sea and greyness. She stretched her dark wings, spreading them around her, as though remembering the difference between herself and the mortal body she inhabited.

She was confused; she didn't entirely understand. She knew that Catherine was some part of her, or perhaps the reverse, but it was so difficult to awaken. Sometimes she thought she heard her Erebos' voice, or her sweet Eris', but everything felt half-dreamed and missing.

She was alone.

Her wings closed around her as she pulled her knees to her chest, feeling like the child she hadn't been in so very, very long.

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the__dark__one
2011-10-31 12:34 am UTC (link)

"Ms. St. Giles," he said, remembering something that did not quite belong to him. It was important. But it was not his. Ms. St. Giles. The name, the lady in the dark. She felt like Nyxie. Was that woman's name the name of the mortal through whom Nyxie had found herself living? Then, as another waft of memory breezed through his head, he chuckled - dark velvet over stone, the sound. "Hard-to-get Ms. St. Giles, is it?" He turned and hauled Nyx bodily into his lap, possessively arranging her just so. "She must know all that running is futile."

And with his other half facing him in such an intimate position, now seemed a good time to stop talking. For a long. Warm. Delicious. Moment. Her mouth could never have tasted so sweetly as it did now -- now, after the desert of their separation, their pasts far behind them and the rest of eternity far ahead. He would fight to the ending of the stars to keep them together. If nothing in the waking world but the reticence two foolish mortals separated them now, then the battle was assured. He would have Nyx. He would have her. He told her this in his own way -- without words.

"We will not sleep," he determined, when they parted. A gentle hand brushed the nape of her neck. "We will not. And once we are together again, we will call our children to us."

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full_of_stars
2011-11-02 02:55 am UTC (link)

Nyx shrugged with a gamine smile as he pulled her to him. Cat was quite... resistant. It seemed to Nyx that for the past ten years, the girl'd been devoted to the silliest things. It seemed clear to Nyx that Catherine needed some help... and Nyx felt more and more capable of providing it, the more time she spent near Ere.

She laughed when he moved her, though soon the sound faded in the wake of other distractions.

As he stroked her nape, she leaned forward, resting her head on his shoulder. "Good. There is much to be done, I think," she said thoughtfully. "Much indeed."

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	the__dark__one 2011-11-04 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	It was enough. To know that she was out there. To know that she knew he was out there. And to know that they would be together out there soon. For now, they had this. And it was enough. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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