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Deimos the Reaper You can't take back the cards you've dealt on this long and lonely road to hell the throne must be such a sad and lonely place The Earth Turtle reigned again (and Deimos had never understood him, why he granted, why he gave, why he bestowed), but this time the Reaper couldn’t stand along the sidelines, drifting through the shadows, or watching from afar. In some strange, concocted scheme, they were now required to hang something from the massive tree. He watched, face impassive, muted, blank, as other creatures roamed closer to the outstretched limbs, hanging off precious items – some nearly made him chuckle (because they were dead, decrepit things, and he had half a mind to wander to a nearby nest of animals and merely extract one from their den, pin it to a pine needle and let it rest there, twisted and dark), and others merely caused him to ponder. He didn’t have anything truly special to stick on the branches; he was not a sentimental creature and rarely kept artifacts to remember someone, or something, by. The only piece that had a noteworthy place was the bone armor of Confutatis, but that’d been earned, taken, snatched from her claws when she’d dared to threaten them again. So, instead, he remembered the tiny acorn charm nestled between a few strayed tendrils of his sable mane, and reached along his withers for the little trinket. It glowed, bronze and coppery, and he sighed, stepping forward amongst the realm of kin and strangers (paying heed to a few with a bobbed head and diligent silence, like their Haruspex), and left it drooping along a bough, just as shiny as the day he’d received it. There was no explanation given – he simply remained stoic and impassive, and backed away with another nod of his skull, of his crown, to the turtle, becoming one more witness to the charades once more.
[Deimos contemplates putting a dead squirrel on the tree, but puts his acorn charm there instead.] |
Photo taken at Hero's Square in Budapest, Hungary
