Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

"Don't have to tell me twice..."
She curls up on the floor and quickly dozes off.

 

"Guess I'll wait then?"
He looks around the cave.
"Maybe I could play some 'Stone'?"

 

"And how would he react if he found out a child he never knew about was erased forever!?" Lux asks, angry.


Praecantatia sweeps up Artemis, Katie, Stephanie and I, holding us close.

"I'll be off. This meeting has been a disaster." Praecantatia says, hastily getting up and walking away, opening a portal and heading through.

"Hey wai-" I try to say before the portal closes.

"Isn't it funny how the first time we allow mortals to join our meeting, it's by far the worst meeting in the history of our meetings?" Caelia says, glaring at Ihra.

"It has gone terribly. I knew inviting the mortals here was a mistake." Mortius says coldly.

"Maybe it was after all..." Gaia says, still hurt by Ihra as she returns to her normal size, looking disappointed.

 

The game's still there. There's no stopping you, but practice never hurt.

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"Ask him yourself!" Ihra cries, giving up and going back to hug Gaia, falling over as she isn't there.

Crying heap returns.

 

He grabs some of the red stones.
"Okay, so how did this work again? I just throw the stones in the center and then try to bounce them in the corners, right?"
He throws a stone towards the center.

 

"Yeah, I will, after I'm done giving Xlentia a piece of my mind." Lux says, angry.

A few large tears splash down onto the table near to Ihra, Tenebrae unable to hold them back.

 

It lands flat, unmoving.

Hopefully you're attempting to do the right thing.

 

He throws another stone at the one in the middle, trying to make it bounce in a nearby corner.

 

Ihra's washed off the table, without her staff.

 

Caelia catches Ihra, holding her up to look at.

 

You wind up missing the square entirely.
Let's just throw again...

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She's crying, shivering.
However, as she wipes her eyes, something about them tells Caelia that they aren't tears of anger.

"...I'm sorry..." She sobs.

 

"Hmph." Caelia says, looking for Ihra's staff.

 

It's still on the table.
"W-wait..."

 

Caelia picks up the staff telikinetically, looking at it.

 

It's an ancient relic, clearly not meant for mortal hands.
Ihra only seems to behave mortal, though...

 

Caelia tosses Ihra to Gaia, who just manages to catch her.

"She mortal?" Caelia asks.

Gaia focuses on Ihra, trying to determine if she's mortal or not.

 

She coughs out blood upon being caught.

She seems to be closer to a demigod, though she isn't mortal or immortal.


The staff begins massively intensifying its weight in Caelia's hand, quickly breaching a paradoxical level of mass while remaining perfectly intact.

 

Gaia's hands glow, healing Ihra.

"She's powerful, and she's not mortal. But...she's not immortal either."


Caelia seems unaffected by the change in weight, able to hold it in place without it shifting as she continues to look it over.

 

She hugs Gaia's hand, albeit pitifully.


It starts causing distortions in space that Caelia can't overpower. Somehow the staff holds strength that goes beyond a high god...
Trying to hold on for much longer may cause problems for Gaia's realm.

 

Gaia attempts to hug Ihra in her larger form, but ends up just pressing her against her chest.


Caelia gleefully tries to hold on to the staff, before Gaia just bats it onto the table.