Their path towards the Drowned Gardens has, fortuitously, one might say, taken them through the Spiral Marketplace, where a leviathan-turned-demigod finds himself in sudden need of a snack. And so they stop for lunch before moving on, accompanied by (at the recommendation of a stall owner) a sack filled with carefully propagated seagrass adorned with frond-like, lilac flowers. Plant them, the owner had requested, they might bring a little colour to the place. Of course, even though he's traded out scales for legs and gills for a manta crystal, Ronin is still dutifully pulling his husband along by way of an underwater piggyback. I have no idea why we don't just travel like this all the time, he muses as the first of the strange statues come into view, and the central tower looms up and around them. |
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01-21-2024, 05:59 PM
& my heart ran away from me Probably because it is much easier for people to come and speak with us this way. Remi answers quickly, before surprising even himself with his honesty. Chuckling, he presses his lips behind his husband's ear and sighs hard enough to send a stream of bubbles curling into the Nova's dark hair. Though if we are going to spend more time around the Mer, maybe we should try and get some more appropriate shifts. I think you would make a great sea-horse. Remi adds thoughtfully before pressing another kiss against the side of Ronin's neck.
Happy to be pulled along, only when they enter into the gardens properly does the Lullaby release his partner. Frowning at the statues staring at them out of the watery gloom, the Lullaby tries to stand (swim?) taller for a moment as he folds his arms across his chest. I do not know what it is, but something about seeing statues and such just appearing out of the water is weird. He thinks. Unnerving, like it is wrong somehow. THE LULLABY
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01-21-2024, 06:10 PM
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01-21-2024, 06:18 PM
& my heart ran away from me Did you know that sea horse males are the ones who carry the young and give birth to them? Something told Remi that Ronin would indeed know this fact, not that it stopped him from saying it. A crab? Straightening slightly, the Lullaby huffs while frowning at the back of his husband's head. Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Ashetta used to call you crab kicker? Gods, that was a name he hadn't thought of in years, and now here it was rolling off of his lips. Swallowing around the memory before jostling Ronin in the ribs for his exceptional pun, the Lullaby ruffles a hand through his halo of curls and nods.
Yeah, something like that. Almost like they are not supposed to be here. Indeed, peering into the gloom he seemed to suddenly make out more and more statutes the longer and harder he looked. All of them started sightlessly (or headlessly, as it were), with hands or fins groping wildly out for their throats. Giving the statues to his right one last grimace, Remi swam back in Ronin's direction. Dipping down, he plunged a hand into the ground and found it surprisingly firm. Having expected sand, his fingernails came away with a black-red substance that seemed more like clay than soil. Well, I suppose if those seeds are meant to grow down here, this will be alright for them? THE LULLABY
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01-21-2024, 06:33 PM
& my heart ran away from me No, I am much too fast for that. Remi agrees mischeviously. To prove this point, he rolls his shoulders to encourage wings to press out from his shoulder blades. Arguably less effective than his tentacles while underwater given how heavy his feathers were when waterlogged, but wings tended to draw fewer looks of displeasure from those they passed. No.. Remi says with a shake of his head. There is no way she would have let you—or me for that matter—become demigods without her approval. Fanning his wings out like large fins, the Lullaby smiles sadly.
Gods, don't. All we need is for the statues to rise up and start a whole new type of conflict. With a groan that had bubbles dripping upward from his lips, the Lullaby rolls his eyes before sweeping away bits of algae and small stones with his wings. Mateo would know better than either of us by this point, but I think they will be alright here. THE LULLABY
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01-21-2024, 06:38 PM
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Change author: Posts: 10,919 | Total: 16,821 MP: 2609 & my heart ran away from me Can you imagine if we had something like this up on the mountain, though? Just weird statues everywhere? Not that we had visitors, but it would have stopped anyone wandering in. Snorting a touch at that and ignoring Ronin's recommendation they stop talking about them, the Lullaby cocks his head to the side and narrows his eyes. You do not suppose it is Noah, do you? As a basilisk and the only one Remi could think of, certainly this was something of which the Foresake was capable.
Then again, probably not. I wonder if he is allowed out of the Hollowed Grounds, yet. Unable to stop himself, Remi laughs openly at that such that large bubbles crown his forehead for a moment before drifting lazily upward. You are right about that. Gods it felt strange to laugh these days, what with doom lurking just across the channel from where they kept their boat moored, or to do something as innocuous as planting some lilac purely for the sake of adding colour. THE LULLABY
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01-21-2024, 07:02 PM
& my heart ran away from me Next post-war isolation season, we will do it. If ever such a time came, so help them all.
No, Remi couldn't really see the Foresaken as the ritualistic murder type either, even if he was the only one of them with the right sort of ability. Maybe there is some sort of tour we can take of the gardens where the Mer explain all of it to us. He suggests with a shrug, before properly turning his back on the statues in order to better concentrate. Watching Ronin's fingers with the sort of intense care he used to employ only when he was painting or experimenting, Remi watched his husband work with silent admiration. We really should. The Lullaby agrees. Using a wing to try to move the cloud of silt and clay that Ronin had created with his planting, Remi glances up for a moment. Have you heard anything from Stormbreak? About how they are doing? THE LULLABY
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01-21-2024, 07:12 PM
& my heart ran away from me Could be. Glancing around, even partially shifting his eyes is absolutely no help this far down where detecting movement just wasn't the same as it was when scouting the skies. Besides, I am sure it is the sort of thing we would have to pay for. Just imagine the talking to from Flora we would get if we were jailed for sneaking into a tour. Grinning slyly at the ridiculousness of it, Remi reaches out for Ronin's hand.
Half floating and half swimming upright again, the Lullaby crinkles his nose as he again peers toward the statues. On one condition. Eyebrows raised to emphasize the serious nature of what he's about to ask for, Remi leans forward before glancing skeptically to the right as if the statues might be listening. So help me, if you bring one of these things back to our houseboat, I will only touch you naked with my tentacles for a month. THE LULLABY
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