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[leschath.livejournal.com]

[ Milo appears along with a large marble pillar that he's leaning on. He's not in his cloth this time, nor is he in a shirt, obviously not expecting company. He has a large bottle of wine in one hand and is drinking straight from the bottle. ]

...this is one of those moth to the flames thing, isn't it?

[ He takes a long swig. ]

Do I want to know why?

... doesn't matter, just getting a drink. I hope the rest of the crate made it here.

Pretty sick of drinking with Aioria. No violent drunks, please.

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[leschath.livejournal.com]

What does?

[shakes his head a bit as he takes the bottle back and downing several large gulps.]

Depends on the day. Meeting you just shook it up a bit. You know...the thought that they could have survived.

[lamb_of_gold]

Their deaths. His.

It's shaken me as well, for the opposite reason. The notion of their deaths...it's...preoccupied me of late.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

Dying isn't that surprising.

It pisses me off that they're all still here, in everything. How do you stand it?

[he looks at Mu sharply all of a sudden with a slight frown]

How can you stand Saga being there?

[lamb_of_gold]

I could ask you the same question - how can you stand them being gone?


Saga...[a dark look crosses Mu's face] I thank Athena every day that there is Aldebaran between him and I, lest I lose myself. Mostly, however, I pity him - he has to live with what he's done, for Athena will not allow him to take his own life.

To me, that is a fitting punishment.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

You say that like I have a choice.

[He pauses and drinks again, emptying the bottle at an alarming rate]

I drink. [he laughs even though nothing's really funny]

[lamb_of_gold]

Well, it's not as though I can go and murder them all while they sleep [Though sometimes I feel as though I would be doing the world a service by doing so to a select few...]. I'm as stuck with them as you are without.


Cheers. [sips his tea]

[leschath.livejournal.com]

Sure you can, one of them at least won't fight back.

...that is not drinking. [passes his bottle again]

[lamb_of_gold]

But Deathmask would haunt me, Aphrodite would scream, and I'd be granting Saga a mercy. It would be quite messy on top of it all.

[Takes another small sip. Can we tell who isn't a drinker?]

[leschath.livejournal.com]

So you live with them. Why don't you go back to that tower of yours? You were pretty content to do that in the past.

[lamb_of_gold]

For one, I'm under orders from Roshi, and from Athena herself, to stay at Sanctuary, and for another....I can't. I've tried, but I cannot leave Athens.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

...I see.

You know, I never had anywhere to go really in the first place.

[lamb_of_gold]

That seems to be a curse common among all saints.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

That's because we belong in the Sanctuary. We don't need anywhere else to go.

[drinks and is quiet for a thoughtful moment]

Though now there's this place.

[lamb_of_gold]

It's not as though it's an awful place. Certain company notwithstanding, I quite prefer it to Jamir.

This place...has it's oddities. It's nice, though. The company is interesting, at the very least.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

I never said it was bad.

So you just accept that this place exists with all its oddities?

[lamb_of_gold]

I see little other choice than to do just that. Even if I were to will myself away, I'd be drawn back eventually.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

Why is it that we always come back?

[lamb_of_gold]

I don't know. Some seem willing enough to come back on their own, but....I just don't know, Milo.