on happenings past, current and future, and getting around.

[interitum]

Well, you're certainly bound and determined to test the limits of what one can bear, aren't you .. ?

[A wry sort of half-smile, lips softened at the edges.]

Even the strongest of pillars will crack, eventually, and I've accepted that -- just as I have a great number of inevitable outcomes, both within this prison and the empty reaches of space. But it will be a while yet before my Fate is sealed. My ability to draw breath should have been indicative of that from the very start.

You make light of my future, and yet I've reconciled with these things long ago.

Regardless, I would appreciate at least a little reprieve from all this ... Chaos. There is only so much responsibility a man can take upon himself in a lifetime, and I believe this one has incurred enough faults to account for several of them.

[Not to mention some ridiculous idiosyncrasies, thanks in no small part to certain living arrangements. . . But what is it the younger generation says these days? Oh, right. YOLO]

Comments

heh 8)

[obscenities]

[ and then there's this guy, creeping up entirely too quietly.

hmm.. ]

A reprieve, is it?

8D!

[interitum]

[No creeping gets past this assassin's keen senses. >_> Have a blank, impassive stare.]

It's what I sorely find myself lacking in these past months, yes. Enjoyment that is forced upon others is not any sort of utopia I'd envision.

and then i took forever SORRY SORRY

[obscenities]

[ but he is literally the god of creeping. and look look, he's also pretty good at this impassive stare thing, too! only there's also the hint of a bemused smile. ]

Why is that? What utopia would you have?

pfft yer fine

[interitum]

It is their ideal, not mine. I don't believe such a concept can exist while we are tied to mortal bodies. It's the tide that beckons me, not any reach of paradise or Heaven.

[And ironically they actually have a beach replica there, but it's stupid and not a real sea at all so it is DEAD to him.]

/o/ !!!

[obscenities]

Perhaps not. Mortal minds are such strange and fickle things..

[ he tilts his head, subtly, almost curiously. ]

Are you a a fish?

[interitum]

Something about your tone suggests you speak from the sidelines ... or perhaps you've experienced enough of those minds to make that judgement.

[Then the question takes him by surprise a little. Of all the comments he's gotten, that is one of the strangest.]

... No. [But he seems more amused than offended.] My kind are known as drell.

[obscenities]

Who can say? It is the curse and the privilege of the gods, I suspect.

[ sorry thane, this guy is weird with a capital w but you're doing quite well so far to not be frustrated!! ]

Drell. [ he's rolling the word around on his tongue as if he is tasting it. trying it out. ] I've heard of no such thing, but 'tis not surprising; there are a great many creatures inhabiting this vast cosmos.

[interitum]

[He actually quirks a brow-ridge at that.]

Of the gods? Do you deem yourself among them?

[obscenities]

So it would seem.

[ he's pretty strange and quiet as far as gods go, he knows, he knows. or insomuch as how mortals tend to think of gods, at least. ]

T'would be me.

[interitum]

[Human mortals, perhaps, but Thane sees his gods differently. After all, it is the Lord of Hunters that keeps his own feet swift but silent.]

Well, you've ... certainly piqued my intrigue. How are you named?

[His tone is deadpan, conveying neither acceptance nor disbelief.]

[obscenities]

[ if hades finds affront in this, surely it does not show; he is as smooth and unruffled as ever, though his smile betrays a frank amusement. proving himself to others is not a thing that concerns him; hades is hades, as far as he is concerned, though it surely makes for amusing conversation. ]

I am Hades, lord of the underworld, and all dark things that twist beneath the earth. And you, too, are a most interesting fish.

[interitum]

Ah. One of the ancient human gods, Greek in origin. An interesting coincidence that I should speak with the one who commands the Underworld, when I have already referenced the place where the souls of my kind depart.

[Again, no mockery or disbelief in his tone. He has seen a lot of things in this ... place, that took him captive. One who claims to be a god of a different culture is not a far cry, and it's not really his place to question it.]

[obscenities]

[ and hades unsurprisingly remains unchanged, smooth as the surface of a still lake. to be truthful, whether or not the creatures of the cosmos believe is of no great concern to him, which is perhaps .. why he has not yet been questioned. ]

A coincidence indeed. How delightful, to hear that some have remembered my name.

[interitum]

Indeed. I find it more than a little curious that humanity cannot seem to agree on their own origin--but I have read things, and I remember them.

I can't say I've ever had the opportunity to meet one who moves so freely, yet speaks of his own unmatched power. Why show yourself in the company of mortals when they cannot even figure out their own place?

[obscenities]

Why not?

At the risk, perchance, of sounding arrogant, eternity is rather a bore. Mortals are entertaining. And as the keeper of all things below the horizon I am rather more.. intimate with humanity than my sometimes brethren.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

Yeah, like we're about to get any sort of reprieve. You should wish for drell women next, see how well that works. While you're at it, a turian woman would be nice. Maybe one that's deaf so I dodge the whole trying-to-talk thing.

[interitum]

I thought we had taken care of that particular issue.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

Didn't quite catch that. You wanted the toad in your room, then? And I can give away the tea?

[interitum]

And find yourself lacking for company? I think your codependency might prevent that.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

Codependency? Who was the one who decided he wanted someone to move in to the other room in the first place? I'll give you a hint. They're green. Not grey.

[interitum]

Well, if at any point you should decide that your first-story unit is preferable ..

[forgivetheinsubordination]

The place with no vantage point, too many angles of approach, with civilians everywhere? No.

But I'm saying I wasn't the one who ...encouraged... someone to share a place.

[interitum]

Perhaps not, but you certainly didn't question it. Shall I double-check to ensure my memory hasn't faltered?

[forgivetheinsubordination]

Very funny, Krios.

Maybe you should check to make sure the fridge is running.

[interitum]

If you wanted to hear about my experiences, you could have simply asked.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

I've got a decent guess as to your level of 'experience' by now. There's getting around, and then there's getting around.

[interitum]

And now you've had the privilege of sharing in my travels.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

Another reason why I didn't even have to ask.

Still think we could use something else in the living room. Just haven't figured out what, yet.

[interitum]

Another gun in the umbrella stand, perhaps?

[forgivetheinsubordination]

I don't get what you and Tali find so funny about it. Close to hand, no one's going to look there if they're coming in, easy to grab.

[interitum]

What if it rains?

[forgivetheinsubordination]

Don't grab the gun. Shooting clouds won't do anything. Thought you knew that.

[interitum]

[Way to miss the joke, Garrus. It doesn't fucking rain here. This place is like, a piece of Rakhana or something. Except with sex everywhere instead of drell ripping each other apart.]

Perhaps we could find a way to rig the television. I have no interest in the vids they put on display here.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

[Missed the joke nothing. Took the opportunity to mock Thane everything.]

I like the idea. Gotta run it past the others. No idea what Mordin's going to decide he needs to research next.

[goto]

[She reveals herself from under the cloaking device, standing at Thane's side.]

We could have some fun over at bakerstreet. You could get your reprieve there. [It can't get any worse, right? Hohoho.]

[interitum]

[Kasumi, Kasumi. The cloaking device might hide her from plenty of others' eyes, allowing her to watch them work-out or even to shift through their underclothes, but Thane knows a little better than that.]

Yes, that is certainly true. I've wandered that direction once in a blue moon.