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[personal profile] likeyouknow 2021-12-12 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
( Seizing upon the opportunity, Pahja slides into the room without a second wasted -- she doesn't want him to change his mind and shut the door in her face now that she's piqued his interest. It could happen, she knows he's prone to ill-temperedness. But apparently his desire to entertain her questions also remained unchanged and that, of course, is comforting.

Giving him a small, thankful smile, she makes herself comfortable in one of the chairs in the room before he can gesture her to take a seat. Presumptuous, yes, but again -- the quicker she entrenches herself in this space the more difficult she hopes he'll find it to remove her.
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Everything. ( It comes more breathless than she'd like, her eagerness overtaking her as she leans forward, a hand going to grab an apple slice. The action is second nature -- she is used to being in charge, in the center of the room. ) You once told me I would like Amaurot. But for all that I experienced it in your recreation, I want to know what it was really like. What do you do for fun? How does one relax? Do you have theater?

( Pahja clears her throat awkwardly. )

Or you could tell me about yourself. I know your name, I've-- ( Here she waggles her eyebrows, because she really can't help herself. ) Seen you transformed, and we hardly know anything about each other!
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[personal profile] likeyouknow 2021-12-12 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
( It's strange, sitting across from him like this. Not that she hadn't wanted to since the first time they met -- he was brimming with knowledge, with things he kept so out of her reach while offering her the truth with his other hand. But she expected to sit across from Emet as he appeared then, not this straight-backed individual with severe bedhead. It's charming given how much the man seemed to like sleeping even when she knew him. )

Oh, no. You transformed before you tried to kill me.

( She says, as a matter of fact. Although in fairness she wouldn't mind seeing him transform in other circumstances. But one question at a time -- Pahja can do that and swallows her bite of apple slice. )

Tell me about yourself, then. What do you like to do when you're not busy... Selching.

( The grin she's giving him can only be described as "shit-eating". )
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[personal profile] likeyouknow 2021-12-12 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
( She laughs. Not at his misery but his frankness, and the sound that bursts from her takes her by surprise, so much so that it's clear on her face. When was the last time she's laughed? Before Garlemald, surely, before Zenos's takeover squashed the white magic within her and she picked up a scythe instead of her rapier.

If she continues to laugh he'll think her madder than he already does, so she quiets, still amused.
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Aye, you wouldn't be the first to say so. And not the last. Hopefully.

( Depending on how things go in her time. )

Is that all? No... theater? No going for long walks?
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[personal profile] likeyouknow 2021-12-13 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
( Oh, that's too good of an opening, and Pahja jumps on it. )

You don't know, perhaps I shall exhibit some sudden bout of seriousness as a result of being shoved full of your aether.

( She's just saying. Leaning back in her chair, tucking her feet under her and curling her tail around them, Pahja considers this. A busy man, huh? Well, that much didn't seem to have changed over the thousands of years at least. )

But you live in paradise. Why wouldn't you want to go out and experience it more than just being shackled to your job? I know I wouldn't want to miss a second of it, no matter how long of a life I had.
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[personal profile] likeyouknow 2021-12-13 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
( She's an Azem, Emet. You love it. )

You wound me! ( Clutching her chest, Pahja gives him an exaggerated hurt look. Still, he has been somewhat forthcoming and extremely indulgent, so Pahja doesn't mind confiding in him a little. After all, she's been wanting to reach for him again ever since he vanished before her eyes. ) What, and find myself mired in the muck of despair, weighted down by the hopes and dreams of the people who rely on me, unable to do anything but slowly walk forward?

( That... might have been too on the nose for the both of them, and Pahja winces as soon as she says it, her expression turning sympathetic. )

I wouldn't survive. Not as me, anyway. ( He knows that, surely with all that she's told him he understands. ) And it's hard to think of anything serious when there's something new to delight everywhere I look. Or of familiar things that I've known all my life just newly made.
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[personal profile] likeyouknow 2021-12-14 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
( He loves it! )

You, ( She says, very pointedly. ) won't be rid of me so easily. I'd be lying if I said you weren't the most interesting thing to me here, beyond what I came for.

( Not through any doing of his own, mind you, but because she has always wondered what he was like before Zodiark. Before everything. The glimpses she had seen while on the First were tantalizing, they were enough to keep her from running, from mistrusting and doubting. Which did her in at the end, fine, but it wasn't as if up until that point he hadn't been honest with her.

Her hands flex as she bites back the urge to reach for him.
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Not getting to know you in my time -- I wish it could have been different. I want to know you.
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[personal profile] likeyouknow 2021-12-14 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
( Is he going to make her explain it? Pahja sighs, chewing on her lip and flashing a small fang at the same time in the face of his adorable exasperation. She'd thought before that was just the weight of thousands of years before, but it is far more reassuring to know he has simply always been like that.

It does get a laugh out of her, a hand coming up to run through her hair -- a sure sign of her exhaustion. Pahja is so very tired, but restlessly so. A bone deep weariness that somehow is lightened by the mere act of talking to him.
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Maybe. My friends back home would agree with you. ( She can just imagine Thancred's face. ) But I thought-- I mean, back when you liked to pop in and editorialize my progress there was more to you and I than the fact we were at odds.

( She thought there was something there, foolishly so. A shrug, conveying her obvious misinterpretation of the situation. )

Even after being corrected I just couldn't stop thinking about what I didn't get to know about you, about where you come from. Who you were.
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( Where would be the fun in that, listening to her friends and ignoring him? If she had, Pahja doubts they would have ended the way they did -- she doesn't listen to anyone, really, and so far it's turned out alright for her in some way or another.

That her determination yet wins him over is a victory in of itself, and her ears perk up in obvious approval.
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Oh, Most Eminent Emet-Selch, how kind of you. ( A pause, and then: ) Let's start somewhere easy -- why did you accept the seat of Emet-Selch in the first place?
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[personal profile] convocates 2021-12-26 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, yes, I am the pinnacle of generosity.

[ He rolls his eyes, but at least he means to answer her question. It's a thoughtful one to say the least; few would question why anyone might become one of the Fourteen these days, with their power and wisdom. It is his reason for being here, after all, to urge another to come to the seat.

A hum. ]


I wished to protect Amaurot. Who would not? I am aware I was not their first choice, but I saw no reason to refuse the role.
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( A noble goal, one she understands. And how it could twist given enough time and grief into a desperation to bring it back. Would she not do the same? Was she not trying to insure her world's safety?

Her face sobers, giving him a small nod of acknowledgement.
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From the little I saw, I can see why. It... it might have been lesser than it was in life, but it was gorgeous. I would have liked it, I think. You said as much too, once.

( She would have loved to have seen it, bright and full of life. )

You must have liked specific parts of it more than most -- tell me of those.
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[personal profile] convocates 2021-12-28 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
You would. I cannot imagine a single person who would not find something to enjoy about the place.

[ He is genuine in that, it seems, voice soft as he thinks on it. The notion that his world might soon come to be destroyed, that so many ill things will happen to those he cares for, makes his heart ache somewhere deep inside of him. He wants not to think of it, but some things cannot be undone.

The questions come and he answers each, careful and honest, until he is waving his hand and rubbing his eyes. ]


Surely you are bored of me now. Is there nothing else you that might be a better use of your time? Spend it well, for it seems we've not long left of it.
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Bored? Of you? Impossible.

( It's a small tease, for she knows she's taken up enough of his time -- especially since he's one for resting at every chance given. Pahja slips off her chair, about to make her way out, before an idea hits her. )

Aye, I think there's one thing left undone. Forgive my indiscretion, oh Emet-Selch, but I have wanted to do this for ages now. ( Which is to say she uses his seated position to her advantage to kiss him briefly on the lips, grinning as she does. Quick for she doesn't want to upset him overmuch but she's only going to have this one chance and she doesn't want to waste it. ) There. Curiosity satisfied.
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[personal profile] convocates 2021-12-28 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I have an eternity. I am sure, given time, your opinion will change.

[ It's not as though he is bothered particularly; he has nothing else that he might have been spending his time doing. Hythlodaeus is far away from him now and Hermes is busy trying to make a decision for his future.

Emet-Selch may as well entertain their little familiar hero.

His thoughts are dug out when she leans forward and kisses him, his eyes widening briefly, almost panicked, before he leans down to look at her properly. ]


Why?
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[personal profile] likeyouknow 2021-12-28 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Why?

( She laughs at that, though not meanly. Apparently Emet is far thicker headed than she'd thought, although she wisely keeps that assessment to herself. One final judgement she can keep tucked close to her heart to make her smile in darker times. )

Because I rather like you. And I wanted to, ever since you asked me if I knew how to whistle. ( Emet won't understand, but that's alright. He doesn't have to. Shrugging, Pahja continues. ) It might be my last and only chance to see what it was like.
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[personal profile] convocates 2021-12-28 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His eyes narrow a little as she laughs, as if there's some kind of ploy or game to be undone - but she continues, and some of that tension fades away.

It's rare that people show an interest in him, that people show any kind of desire towards him, Emet-Selch as he is, and his hesitation is clear. ]


Are you planning on dying some time soon? You have time. It is I, I think, that does not.
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Perhaps. ( And perhaps she needs to spell it out for him. Pahja takes a moment to settle herself -- straddling his lap, since he has made no move to put space between them -- before continuing on. ) But when I say that you are dead to me, I am not speaking in poetic terms. I killed you, Emet-Selch, because that was the only way forward.

( Her head bows, forehead softly thunking against his as she rests them together. )

I wanted to know what kissing you is like. Not just anyone, but you. Emet-Selch. Hades.
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[personal profile] convocates 2021-12-28 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. [ He isn't sure if he should be offended or not, if he should somehow be upset or dismayed that he dies at her hand. If there was anyone who had the strength to kill him then it would surely be her, coloured as Azem and someone he is more than a little desperate to keep close.

His heart aches a little, and his stomach feels as though it is in knots.

Head turning, still resting on hers, he sighs. ]


And how was it, kissing the honourable Hades as he is?
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I've been told that, for an accurate conclusion, you must attempt an experiment more than once.

( Which does mean that she will attempt to kiss him again, her hand coming up to cup his cheek while the other snakes across his shoulders to hold him. There is a gentle curiosity in the way she kisses him but also a sharp, desperate ache to her grip, her touch.

She wants to remember this, to have this, even with she will have nothing else.
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