Of Cats and Dogs - rp

[Shmiley]

Aza laughed and smiled, running his fingers through her hair and softly sang a lullaby to her, a lullaby his father sang to him.

[spirit_queen]

"Sounds good," Lucy said as they arrived back at the temple. He heard delighted laughter from his charge and smiled in spite of himself; he was fond of her. Would he constantly risk his neck to feed her, otherwise?

Astarte laughed and clumsily tried to sing along, mumbling nonsense instead of bothering to learn the actual words to the song.

Meanwhile, in the Temple of Tuonos, the head priest had been praying when he suddenly felt compelled, almost possessed by a need to write something down. He feverishly searched for parchment, and when he found it, hastily scribbled out the following:

In a land of pain,
no hope for success,
four to stand for the oppressed.

One whose lineage to him is lost,
from him a light to shine through the dark.

One whose hands take but pay no cost,
from him come plans for a new start.

One who brings hope to the lost,
from him comes strength to bolster the heart.

One who is cast out as dross,
from him comes justice for those fallen apart.

And if you seek the Chosen Four,
a prince, a thief, a priest, and a wh.ore,
Remember what we've told you before,
the foreigners shall rule no more.

Stunned, the man in his forties with graying blond hair shakingly read what he just wrote. Finally, after years of praying to no avail, Tuonos had answered! Here, in his hand, lay proof that they wren't alone in this struggle, for it appeared the gods had chosen four champions to stand against their oppressors! But, wait, there were thousands of thieves and wh*.res, there were no princes, and many priests. How were they to find the Chosen?

~

"That's wonderful! We always need help gathering wood; we're a wood-based society, if you haven't noticed," chuckled Nedakh.

[Shmiley]

Aza laughed and continued to sing, the song slowly trickling into another one entirely.

[spirit_queen]

But little Star had begun to sing something entirely different; she broke out into "itsy bitsy spider", which from her, sounded like "iz-bizz spdw wenaa wdw spowt!"

[Shmiley]

Aza laughed and ruffled her hair, "Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain then the itsy, bitsy spider went up the spout again."

[spirit_queen]

Astarte squealed in delight when Aza got what she'd been singing, and then she began the same one again.

[Shmiley]

"The itsy, bitsy spider went up the water spout," Aza's hand crawled up her arm, "Down came the rain and washed the spider out," his hand tickled down her arm and side, "Out came the sun and dried up all the rain and the itsy, bitsy spider went up the spout again!" This time he tickled her.

[spirit_queen]

She screamed her delight and wriggled in his arms.

[Shmiley]

Aza laughed and continued to tickle her until his hand started cramping.

[Miranda_]

"Anyway, I'll see you around, once I've visited my fence and gotten the money," Remy said, handing the younger boy a small packet of soft drugs. This could be smoked, but wasn't addictive like the opium was, which was also smoked. Remy left the Temple and headed casually up the street.

Victor soon got back to the Temple, a minute or so after Remy had left. He felt almost faint with hunger, but knew he could not spare any of the money he'd earned to buy food, for he needed it all for drugs. So he turned to the Temple instead to get food.

~~~

Ari laughed. "I can wield a chopper as well as any man," she said, a smile on her face. "And maybe better."