ORIGIN

Reseda was leaving now, leaving the room of bones. She hoped, dearly, that the green one would not follow her. She had had enough of the possessive snake to last her a lifetime. She couldn't go anywhere without it sticking its annoying tongue into her business. It was honestly like the caves were too small for the monstrous creature. She didn't like the green one at all and she had no intention of talking to it again.

And the deep one was gone. It was gone. She couldn't find the wolf anywhere. It had promised to teach her things, many things, but now it had disappeared and left her alone with only the magic she had. She wasn't pleased with that kind of behavior. She would not fear the deep one. One day, the deep one would fear her.

She stopped moving, jerked out of her thoughts when she heard a clattering from nearby. She looked over and realized that she was not far away from something. A red and white thing sitting in the bones. Doing something strange with them. She didn't really have a good reason not to investigate. She wasn't exactly in a hurry to leave her home.

She changed her course so that she was walking towards the thing. She saw it moving bones around, sorting them into piles. She didn't understand gems sometimes. Actually, she never did. They were so odd.

She had to decide how she was going to approach this creature. Would she be smooth and swoon and try and win its affections? Should she scare it with magic and pin it to the ground? Or should she not put in the effort and just see what was going on and leave? No, she couldn't do the last one. She had sworn that she would be the master of the caves. She couldn't do it if the gems thought she was strange.

So she decided to do none of them. She didn't care enough to try and compliment the creature and she didn't feel much like picking a fight. So she would act like a curious and caring lady. As she got closer, she let her head tilt a little bit. "Hello," she said, gently, quickly tuning her voice when she realized it was a child. "Who are you? What are you doing with the bones?"

A child. Innocent, young. Filled with much time and much life. A vessel or an enemy or a follower...or maybe a tasty meal. Although there wasn't much meat yet on the bones. More like a small snack and some bones to pick her teeth with.

"Living with myself."
Nothing but lies.


tags: @Axel
notes:

Axel Snow Shadowalker. For a moemnt, Reseda was going to ask if it was kidding, but then she realized that it would probably be perceived as rude. That was an unfortunate name, however, and Reseda knew that she would change it immediately if it was hers. Thankfully, it was not.

However, on the outside, she needed to show respect or it would get mad. She nodded, approvingly. "A strong name, if not a long one." She thought that she had to at least mention how long the name was if she wasn't going to criticize. Then again, she didn't really care about it, she just felt like pointing it out, considering how ludicrous it was.

She looked down at the bones. There looked to be some good ones among the ones the unfortunate one had not sorted yet. Big ones, thick and strong and good for munching. She hadn't sat to munch on bones for a while now. She gestured down to them. "Mind if I join you?"

Without really waiting for an answer, as it wasn't really the unfortunate one's place to deny her, she dropped to her stomach and pulled a big sturdy leg bone towards her and began to gnaw on the end. It felt good to be scraping her teeth against the bones again. After a moment, she took her mouth away from the end of the bone and looked at the bird, remembering that it was there. "You say you just hatched, huh? Quite a place to start. Most avoid this cave if they can." Small talk was coming easier to her now that she had some practice, although she still didn't see the point. But if it got her friendship points with the unfortunate one, then perhaps it was worth it.

"Living with myself."
Nothing but lies.


tags: @Axel
notes:

When the unfortunate one asked again, she realized that she hadn't actually answered its question. It wasn't out of not want to divulge who she was, it was simply a lack of memory. She had completely forgotten that it had asked in the first place. Well, hopefully the unfortunate one didn't take offense. That would be annoying.

She gave a few more munches on the bone before she decided to answer. "I'm Reseda, the dragon of the bones. I've lived here since I hatched cycles ago." There was more she could have said, about the deep one being her 'master', about the strange hyena and the fortunetelling, of the magic she practiced, but she knew that sometimes, when gems asked "Who are you" they weren't actually asking for a life story. Which was strange. They should phrase the question differently.

When the unfortunate one bent down to pick up a bone, she watched out of the corner of her eyes. It was copying her. That was good. Very good. If they continued like this, she would have its loyalty. And when it spit the bone out, she couldn't help herself. The laughter forced its way just as she crunched down and the force of it snapped her jaws shut, snapping the top of the bone off. She spit it out before the laughter burst out. "Not everyone can bite the bones. They are dead and vile. The taste is acquired, trust me."

Now that her bone was broken, she had no need of it anymore. Deciding to give a small show for the unfortunate one, she tossed it to a side and flicked a claw. A small stream of energy surged forward and smacked into the bone, sending it flying and clattering away somewhere farther in the room. She casually picked up another big bone and began to munch down on that one as well.

"Living with myself."
Nothing but lies.


tags: @Axel
notes:

The sudden stink that was coming off of the unfortunate one would have repulsed Reseda, but she was too busy munching on bones to get the full blast. It was muted by the heavy, dark taste of the bone. However, it was still disgusting and she crunched harder in reply. She wasn't sure why the thing had just done that, but she didn't really care why. Gems were strange and stupid.

But, now that it had mentioned magic, perhaps that was the unfortunate one trying to copy her abilities, but failing horribly. Once again, trying to copy her was a good sign that she was doing something right. Perhaps she should try being casual instead of forced too much.

"Oh, well thank you, Axel. But that spell is not very impressive. There are many more things that I can do that are way cooler then making a bone fly." She was eager, now, to show her most powerful of spells, to both impress and terrify the little creature. Was this her way to glory and respect and fear? To talk and then to impress? She didn't understand how the reasoning went, but if the unfortunate one wanted impressive magic, then she would give it.

"Living with myself."
Nothing but lies.


tags: @Axel
notes:

Reseda smiled and set aside her bone. She noted that this might have been the first time she was convinced to put down her snack in favor of something more interesting. She was getting somewhere with this bird. She was doing something right. "Okay," she replied. "I'll show you something cool." She took a deep breath and willed the energy to collect in her gem. A white light passed through the green gem for an instant as the energy activated. The komodo stood, and stepped to the side as another of Reseda stayed on the ground. Perfect and exact, the copy was indistinguishable from the original. They looked at the unfortunate one and gave it a smile. Reseda willed her copy to speak. "Can you tell which of us is the real one?"

"Living with myself."
Nothing but lies.


tags: @Axel
notes: