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Tweak says, "I am your god!"

Zacharias Smith, Pain In The Arse (godchaser) wrote in the_8th_floor,
@ 2011-09-02 20:42:00

Who: Hannah and Zacharias
Where: The Leakey
What: birthdayish things!
When: Evening on the 2nd

He'd been in Knockturn first and when that got old, he stumbled to the Leakey. Most of the waitresses there knew him and would tuck him in a room, and goddamn, he didn't feel like going home. He'd ordered two rounds and - well, maybe not the third. Maybe. Depends on who came over. It hadn't been a bad birthday by any means. He'd gotten gifts from his fellow Hufflepuffs, his cousin, and Pansy. It worked out. And, he was drunk now!

He grinned as the waitress came over. "'Nother one," he said, knocking at his glass, not registering who was standing in front of him.

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sunny_grace
2011-09-07 04:34 am UTC (link)

"If not gods, what do you think they were?" Her first glass was done and she was feeling rather warm. She grinned, thinking about if the Greek gods had been real. "I think it would have been rather interesting," she said, her voice a little dreamy. "If the gods really did exist. Aphrodite, Apollo, Hera..." Those were the main gods that she knew about.

"What about those pictures you see in the sky?" she asked. "The ones people can see in the stars? I could never see them, save for that big spoon one." She was probably embarrassing herself, especially to someone who knew so much about it.

"Odin? Is that a Greek god as well?" The name sounded familiar, but she couldn't place it. "And why would you say that about Zeus? Be careful of he could smite you you know." Another serious head nod and a sip of her new drink.

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godchaser
2011-09-07 04:47 am UTC (link)

He had to laugh at her lack of knowledge. She clearly hadn't done very well in Astronomy. Still, she was talking about it and that was always nice. "Spoon? You mean Plough? Or Little Bear? One of 'ems a spoon?" Now he was confused.

"And I dunno. The Greek gods aren't real, but the stars have to be there for a reason. Magic teaches us that things have purposes, so what are the purposes of the stars? Unless something - or someone - put 'em there for us to divine from."

He never talked about this sober, ever, and he had to be in the just right mood to do it drunk. Lucky for Hannah, he was in the just right drunk mood.

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sunny_grace
2011-09-07 05:01 am UTC (link)

She tried to think of the one she was talking about and lifted her finger to draw the shape in the air. "It's like a square spoon," she said. "At least I think so? I know there's a big one and a little one with a handle...a spoon, right?" She looked over at Zacharias, wondering if he would know what she was trying to describe.

She thought about it for a reason and shrugged. "It's hard to say what put them out there. There are so many different religions and thoughts that any of them could be right, don't you think? Although Greek mythology always seemed cool." Hannah had always had all of these interests in things, but had never actually taken initiative to learn more about them. At least she was getting a mini lesson with Zacharias now!

"Stars are beautiful," she said, pointing at Zacharias with her glass in her hand. "But you can never see them very well. Where are good places to see them?"

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godchaser
2011-09-07 05:14 am UTC (link)

"Oh, that's Little Bear. Polaris. He points to Polaris. Most important constellation in the sky. Then there's Big Bear - Plough. Then Draco, and they're the circumpolar ones, though during some seasons, some constellations, like Lyra, will appear circumpolar for a time. Little Bear was once part of Draco's wings." He thought of his classmate Draco and laughed. Malfoy with wings. It was amusing.

He quieted at her next question. "Someone who set up the stars as a way to call us home, I think," Zacharias said, though softly. He didn't answer her final question.

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sunny_grace
2011-09-07 05:27 am UTC (link)

"Draco?" Hannah seemed to read Justin's mind and giggled. "Draco is named after a star formation? Was he an animal too?" She giggled again. Draco had always intimidated her in school (along with the other Slytherin students), but it seemed rather funny to bring it up in conversation now.

Hannah didn't quite notice his change of demeanor when he spoke and made a face. "But a way to call us home how? When we die?" She shook her head, taking a sip. She knew she should slow down a bit as she didn't think Zacharias would appreciate her puking on him for his birthday. She signaled for a glass of water, deciding she would slow down at this drink. Maybe order another and nurse it a little longer.

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godchaser
2011-09-07 05:44 am UTC (link)

"All the Blacks are," Zacharias said. "It's like, their thing. Draco is the dragon. But Sirius is the dog star - brighter than polaris even, wonder why none of 'em are named that - and Regulus is a star, Andromeda is both a star and a galaxy, Bellatrix is a star ... I don't think Narcissa is a star. No, she's not. But most of 'em are, I guess."

He shrugged, ordering another drink as she ordered water. "Call us home, call us too him, maybe he's tracin' the way home and we've got to find it before we die or we'll always be stuck here and we'll never know, not a one of us, what's out there and what comes next." he was almost whispering at this point, his voice tense and low.

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sunny_grace
2011-09-08 07:51 pm UTC (link)

"I never knew that," Hannah said, a little distantly. She was trying to think of who those names were...she only really knew Sirius and Bellatrix and it was from rumors and the battle. She had no reason to know them, but found it interesting about their names. She laughed, almost giving off a small snort.

"It seems likely that the Black family would name themselves after stars. With the connotation you give between gods and astronomy, it doesn't seem surprising that they would relate themselves to them." She sipped on her water feeling a little dizzy. She had drunk those two drinks a little too fast.

"Kind of like God?" Hannah asked. She had never been very religious, but she knew a little about Christianity. Her father had been Episcopalian, but they only went to church on the big holidays.

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