Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

"Aj.

Get the rope."

 

"You're...older?" I say, standing between Ihra and Artemis defensively, "What happened?"

Artemis gently bites my neck; not enough to harm.

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I hold up the rope in Luphyx's view.

"Well this got 100% Kinkier." Abigail comments.

 

"Rineth just bent time, and the anomaly completely decimated my seal."

"Are you really going to tie me to... uh... me?" Rineth mutters in dragon form.

 

"Ok, just...don't knock me out alright. We're friends, right?" I say nervously, holding the rope tightly.

 

"Yeah, we're good. I don't know what'd be wrong. Unless you stabbed me again. Which I know you didn't."

 

"Ok..." I say, a little calmer, "So, if you were 7 before, are you 12 now?"

 

"Yeah. With three zeroes at the end, but yeah."
Her horns are now more than nubs.

 

"Do you think you could like...wait another 5 millenia in your crystal so we'd be on the same wavelength?" Abigail asks.

Artemis lightly bites into my neck; I flinch a little.

 

"Yeah... No. Not doing that again."

 

"What was it like?" Abigail asks.

Artemis pulls away, and blood covers her mouth. She smiles at Ihra.

 

"Boring. Spend five thousand years doing nothing sometime. I guarantee you'll regret it."

 

"Well, you seem to be a little more matured. It's kind of a shame really, I liked you when you were younger and oblivious." Abigail says, slightly saddened.

"Technically she hasn't changed, apart from age. She spent 5 millenia doing nothing, so she couldn't expeirence events that mature you into an older, more adult being. She still has the brain of her old self, albeit with greater learning capacity." Artemis explains, wiping her mouth.

"I'm surpirsed you're still sane after spending 5 millenia with nothing but your thoughts, and the innability to move." I say, rubbing my neck.

 

"It's bigger than it looks. The only thing there was to do was study my mother's tomes. That only lasted a millennia. I learned a lot, though. Don't worry about me being oblivious, I doubt I've become more attentive."

 

"Do you remember much about what happened before you got stuck for 5 millenia?" I ask.

 

"Mother died, I got Rineth out of The Hive, and then got eaten. Why?"

She looks at Sgavrinn.
"And I gave Sgavrinn to Artemis."

 

"I don't remember you getting eaten..." I say.

"I think I bit you..." Artemis says.

 

"It felt like something ate me. If you bit me, that's weird, but okay. Besides, I'm about to get back at you for it-
I learned a bunch about healing and necromancy while holed up in there. I also learned about what'll happen to Vesius and Riihs when they perform the ascension ritual."
She looks a bit bitter.

 

"You taste fuzzy." Artemis says.

"What'll happen? And, more importantly, what is the ascension ritual?"

 

"The ascension ritual is the thing required to awaken the power of our deities. What'll happen is... uh... they'll...

...they pretty much kill themseves and fuse their souls with the deity's."

 

"So that's how you'll free Xlentia! You'll become her!" Artemis says happily.

"Pretty macarbe" I say.

Abigail starts dancing for some reason, and upbeat music can be heard from her helmet.