@Bananapudding
Kyoko: My mom use to tell me hugs make everything better
Kyoko: My mom use to tell me hugs make everything better
Lux: Smart woman. [Smiling a little bit.]
Jason: What happens when the curse is active?
Lux: [Silent, thinking about how best to answer the question.] My teeth and fingernails become sharp and pointed, my eyes go completely black, and my entire demeanor changes…. In short, I become a bloodthirsty, murderous, monster. [Stops talking and shudders from the thought.] Mercy on those that look into my eyes during The Dark Time. [Added as an afterthought.]
Kyoko: Why not… I don't know… lock yourself up during those times? My friend's a Lycan and goes through similar changes and does it all the time
Lux: [Smiles a grim smile.] That is exactly what I do! Poor Lumen here knows first-hand how bad it is if we fail to lock me up in time, or if someone foolishly lets me go.
Kyoko: My friend Nimue hopes to find a cure for these types of transformations after the war. Hopefully, it works..
Lux: Unfortunately, I'm afraid, that the only cure for this curse is death…. As I mentioned, it can't be altered or removed.
Kyoko: Oh God… I'm so sorry, Your Highness
Lux: I've lived with the curse for 19,490 years.
Kyoko: [tries to blink back tears] I'm sorry…
Jason: Bullshit.
Kyoko: [looks at Jason] Pardon?
Jason: There's no way that he's THAT old! I mean just look at him; he can't be much older than 36!
Kyoko: [sniffs] Of course he can. My goddess is over a billion years old and she looks as though she hadn't completed elementary school
Lux: I understand the disbelief, young firery one…. I was given the gift of an extraordinary long life twice; the first time was from an elderly elf whose life I saved, and the second time was after relocating my adoptive aunt's children for their own safety. That is why I'm far older than I seem.
Jason: [Thinks about things, and realizes that he did get a magical invitation to Lux's gathering, is a cambion, and has seen other strange wonders.] I'm sorry about my brashness, Excellency.
Lux: All is forgiven, young firery one.
Kyoko: Do you have a Queen by your side?
Lux: I did. [A look of deep sorrow comes into his features.] Her name was Ambyr, and she birthed quadruplets; Adir, Solomon, Asher, and Sheba…. Sadly, they were all murdered by Tritain many, many years ago….
Kyoko: Why did I have to ask… I didn't mean to…I'm sorry.
Lux: It's alright, young one; you couldn't have known.
Jason: Irregardless, I'm still sorry for your loss.
Kyoko: Me too.
Lux: You mentioned that you have a goddess.
Kyoko: Yes, Your Highness
Lux: Though I am flattered by the formalities, you may call me Lux. [Pauses momentarily to take a drink of his mead.] Please tell me about her.
Kyoko: As you wish. My goddess Auriya has existed along side the human god as a sort of "backup" in case his creation ever failed…Unfortunately it did and she took over what was once Heaven while he went off to make his new creation elsewhere. She took a piece of herself and put it into the humans she deemed worthy…then created these…horrible monsters… creatures called the Cloakers. They…um..
Lux: That's interesting!
Kyoko: [laughs awkwardly] Yeah, it is
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