Filling The Emptiness

BASTIEN i am the remedy to your heart, When the true nature of Anden's 'curse' was revealed Bastien could not help but laugh, suddenly realising that this man had to be very new to the world. "Forgive me, my new friend, but you have mistaken what is most definitely a blessing for something evil." Opening his mouth, Bastien pointed to his fangs, which he was sure Anden would know he possessed as well. "I openly and willingly went to the Voice, a while ago now, to become this way. It is a wonderful thing. You have recently arrived, yes? You are quite lucky." And thankfully, the story of his curse fit right in. "Well...when I first arrived here, I was taken by the Goddess Safrin. She is beautiful, cloaked in the night sky and fierce enough to make anyone awed. I ah..." Rubbing the back of his neck, Bastien showed a rare bit of embarrassment, laughing awkwardly. "..Made a church in her name, though truthfully it was more of an excuse to have orgies and drink wine." He had things he liked to do, so sue him. Or curse him, as the case had been. "Anyway, things grew complicated and she cursed me to be an old man for a time. Not just an old man - ugly, ill. I did not care for it, so I took myself elsewhere, to a new Goddess. The Voice." Tilting his head to the other side now, Bastien showed Anden the golden moon on his neck, a mechanical mark of the Voice forever in his skin. "She has never betrayed me like that, and gave me the gift of my child. ..And my wife, for a time." I am the carbon collected. I am the printed upon your stars.