tampered | It's big, it's heavy, it's wood~

When; Today; ongoing.
Rating; Suitable for General audiences!
Characters; Seth Nightroad and Lilith Sahl
Summary; The littlest Crusnik meets back up with her surrogate mother/sister-type figure after 900 years of being apart. (Thar be spoilers here for the Trinity Blood series, surely? Read at your own risk!)
Log;

Tick, tick, tick-

Falling down, spinning, disorientation not unlike an overdose of spiked eggnog, the feeling was the same every time Seth Nightroad closed her eyes. A voice calling out through the tick-tock and grinding gears of a carousel too beautiful to be of this world- or any other. A dream the small Crusnik wasn't sure she wanted to wake up from out of necessity, a curiosity, a desire not unlike lust. Like fine wine sipped from a sugar cone, with sprinkles and cherries and whipped cream on top, it was the perfect comfort food.

Seth hated to see what this place would do to someone like her brother. Singular. Thinking about what Cain might do made her stomach fall out.

Something greater, stronger, beyond all humans and vampires and Crusniks and maybe even God was at the controls here. Seth was not naive. She was not startled when, even after nine-hundred plus years, the world could still surprise her.

And surprise her it did, when the familiar scent - feel - presence - of someone she never thought she'd ever see again made her appearance in the square. Now that the woman known as Lilith Sahl was not but six feet from her, in her entirety, solid and breathing, Seth was sure this was beyond something she'd encountered in dreamscape, for even in her dreams Lilith was never so beautiful.

A world of possibilities, maybe?

Whatever the case may be, Seth was overjoyed and made record time closing the distance between them, burying her face in Lilith's robes and cheering - weeping - for joy.

"Lilith! Oh, Lilith! I've missed you so much!"

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"I am pleased to hear it! It sounds like you are doing much good, Seth," Lilith beamed back at Seth, squeezing her hands gently in her own, and looking rather proud of the girl in front of her. Techically, of course, at well over 900 years old, Seth was no child, but her appearances and Lilith's memory would probably ensure that she would always think of her that way.

Something that Seth said suddenly clicked in her head, and Lilith's eyes widened. Speaking of not being a little girl anymore...

"Children?" she repeated. "You have children, Seth?" she blinked.

"No, not really~" Seth giggled. Forever frozen in the prime of her youth, Seth wasn't capable of such things. "I'm..."

The tiny Crusnik took the hem of Lilith's dress into her tiny fist, holding it tight. As if, if she let go, everything would unwind, and each and every thing Seth worked so hard to achieve between the empires would crumble depending on what Lilith had to say next.

"I didn't want to get into it too much- you must be exhausted, with all that you've had to endure!" A pause, followed by a smile, "The truth is, I'm an empress. Of a kingdom of Methuselah, vampires..."

Seth smiled weakly, then.

"But I fear I haven't looked out for Abel-nii-san much. It's only just recently that we've been reunited, and I've started talking to him again. I feel I've been a bad sister, Lilith."

Such insecurities were unbecoming, but around Lilith, the dam broke and there wasn't any stopping them. "He still feels bad..."

Seth looked anxious, much to Lilith's surprise, and she reached out a slender hand to run soothing fingers through the girl's hair, urging her to continue.

Amber colored eyes widened even further at what Seth had to say. That was certainly not what she expected to hear. Her children must have been... her subjects. "An empress? My, Seth, you really have been busy, haven't you?" she breathed, astonished and extremely impressed at the same time.

With a soft sigh, Lilith pulled Seth to her in another warm hug, rubbing her back soothingly. "The three of us all seem to be blaming ourselves, my dear, for things we should not be," she murmured. "Abel told me he blames himself for my death, even 900 years after," she continued.

"I have never blamed him, Lilith, so he shouldn't blame himself, either!" Seth clung to the other woman as if her life depended on it, desperation and longing and guilt forcing her to do so. "If we could only learn to live by your example... we all should be happy, that is what I thought. But Abel-nii-san blames himself still, and I wish he wouldn't."

The small empress and tea seller pulled away from Lilith, eyes wide and glassy as they focused on pavement and nothing else. Hands clasped behind her back, she kicked at an imaginary rock. "Brothers... they're so troublesome! Don't you think so, Lilith? I should have had sisters!"

An attempt at humor, however feeble, for Seth was never one to dwell for centuries at a time on things that her youngest older brother did, let alone the fifteen minutes since they'd run into each other again.

"I know. I have already briefly tried to convince him otherwise, but Abel seems to be set on blaming himself. Perhaps, in time, he will let go. I do not blame him either," she explained, squeezing Seth tightly, one hand resting at the nape of her neck.

"They are rather troublesome, aren't they?" she smiled reassuringly, and gently put two fingers under Seth's chin, lifting it to look at her in the eye. "But you still love them, hmm? At least... Abel," Lilith frowned lightly now. She wasn't sure if she should tell Seth that she should love Cain.

"However, from what little I have learned, you two have followed in my footsteps wonderfully. Abel is different now. Gentler. And you are the leader of all of the Methuselah," she smiled proudly.

The endearing and proud note in both her voice and smile made her gasp slightly, eyes widening ever so with somewhat surprise. Lilith's approval meant the world to her. It was overwhelming enough being reunited with a person that was - still was - dead for nine hundred years. It was beyond overwhelming when that person, that one person that one loved the most, offered such praise after nine hundred years or wondering whether or not one was doing the right thing.

The smile that found Seth's lips would be with her for days to follow. She pounced Lilith again in a fit of giggles. "I love you, Lilith! And I love Abel-nii-san, too!"

All of Seth's smiling and happy laughter left Lilith with a warm feeling, the first she had felt since finding herself in that strange city. Seth had always been one to make her smile and cheer her up. Nine hundred years hadn't changed that.

"I love you, too, Seth," she squeezed her hands gently again. "And Abel, of course. Has he been well?" she asked curiously. Seth had to know something, even if she had mentioned that she had only recently been back in contact with her older brother.

[we should bring Abel over! x3]

[Lilith told him they were in the garden. Wanna move it over there, and then he could come find them? :D]

[sure -- why don't we start a new log for that...? do you think it would make it easier?]

[Yus, that would probably make it much easier! I suppose we should poke Grace and ask her to join us. *laughs*]

[eeek~~~ Were you guys waiting for me to set up the thread? D: DX *so flighty*]

[No!! *laughs* I can set it up <3]

[And posted! ♥]

It's big, it's heavy, it's wood~

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