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[OPEN] Old teenage hopes are alive at your door [CLEARING]

Isopia the Mountain That Knows Posts: 780
Dragon's Throat Apostle atk: 6.5 | def: 10 | dam: 8.0
Mare :: Tribrid :: 18hh :: 3 - is now aging slowly HP: 90 | Buff: NUMB
Hubris :: Royal Bronze Dragon :: Shock Breath & Frost Breath & Babel :: Royal Gold Dragon :: Fire Breath Odd
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Isopia
barefoot on a summer's night

@Volterra Q_________________________Q

But if he had been looking - if anyone had, really, other than Ros - they would have seen the change in her.

Volterra was quite right, in his own mental gesticulation of this. His impact on her life had been profound, and without those memories to tether her to the path that his influence had put her on, she suddenly found herself very different. But of course, she had no recollection of what it was she used to be like.

Without Volterra, their love, his betrayal, and their lost child, she had returned to a much more objective and distant state. She only had Zero - who she had offered to have a child with, for purely information-gathering reasons; there was nothing in his timid questions that made her heart flutter or her stomach turn, for she didn't remember the awful things she'd done or the wonderful ones either. She didn't even know she wasn't a virgin any longer. Isopia had followed Kisamoa's instructions and kept her skepticism mute. She'd challenged Tembovu and argued with Aly failing to see their points of view, which might have been possible had she remembered Volterra. For in her he had opened up a small and precious well of emotion that had coloured her thoughts, regardless of whether she was conscious of it or not.

She was different. So very very different, but only Hubris now could remember what it was she had been like and compare the two Isopia's.

Only Hubris truly knew if she was better off.

And this time, to his credit, Hubris hadn't tried to wound the big stallion to avoid this conversation. He couldn't stop this from inevitably happening, he quickly realized, and so merely sat in a tree branch, wide blue eyes watching full of terror and the deepest sorrow. 

Dragon-Isopia, meanwhile, could only stare with a relatively placid if not slightly uncomfortable expression. 

She cleared her throat, her mind - a complex network of tangled facts and deductive reasoning - sparked and spun, trying to reconcile the things he was saying. But none of it made any sense of course. The familiarity with which he addressed her, the words he was calling her...She wanted to tell him that he had her mistaken for someone else, but of course that couldn't be right. The demi-goddess was rarely boastful and so wouldn't say so out loud, but she really was fairly unique. There were none with whom she could be confused, whether it was her appearance, her personality, or her rank and position in this world which were being compared. 

But why would he think she would know him?

Why did he say us, quite like that?

"I don't." She replied evenly, her honey-amber eyes wide and honest. There was no softening in her tone, no apology or upset. The Mountain couldn't feel shame or regret over her decision because ... she couldn't even recall that it had happened. Briefly her eyes searched for Hubris, but she couldn't find him among the leaves, and even his mental presence seemed muted. She couldn't see the tears streaming down his face.

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RE: Old teenage hopes are alive at your door [CLEARING] - by Isopia - 01-27-2017, 08:16 PM

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