Re: The Icarus/The Fallen
Enlil had confusion about his status as heir to anything. Part of him knew that he was entitled and had been born for great things, but in equal measure he knew that he was nothing and would receive nothing. It was a paradox in his mind, but then so many things were. He lived with confusion and confusion with him, and they held hands and were traveling companions of a sort. You see, confusion was more frustrating for those around the confused than for the confused themselves. There was a certain calm in not knowing the things wrong with you. "I do not believe I have ever known paradise," he admitted. "Not when I soared, not when I fell, and certainly not know. But feeling, this I know." It was sufficient.
"It sounds like a subject for a very thick tome when you say it like that," said Enlil of poverty. Enlil was not suited for poverty. In the wildness of his unmarred youth he'd stupidly believed money to be something he was not concerned with. Income was not even a necessary evil to the young man he'd been, the silver spoon there and crammed in with life lesson ignored. He'd taken for granted that he would always have what he wished, and so he did in the mornings. But in the evenings reality came with its bony hand and confusion brought clarity, and clarity found his pockets empty. Yet this interaction was not about coinage. This was about something else entirely, and Enlil was on his feet and ready to move. He was a graceful creature, as the very wealthy tend to be. Elegant and proper, tall and slight. Handsome, even with the pale skin that seemed so odd in one with ink for eyes. "I thought it when you sat beside me," he said about Nathaniel being a fool, "but I am telling you now, in case you have not noticed it yourself."
He led the way from the piano car and down the hallway to the first class rooms, where he opened his own door to reveal a room filled with oddities. Collections collected and strewn about here now. Small statues, small medals, small books, small mirrors. Small things in vast multitude, and placed haphazardly wherever they fell. Into this space he invited Nathaniel.