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[lamb_of_gold]

I told you to stay in the temple, Shion!

[Despite Mu's harsh and angry tone, there is no answer. Shion is sitting against what looks to be a low wall made of white marble. In his lap are two semicircular halves of a golden shield. He's staring at them without really seeing them.

[Mu, in the meantime, is crouched nearby, tending wounds that look as though they were much uglier not long ago. The robes he's wearing are caked with old blood, and he himself looks to be a bit worse for wear.

[But even as he finishes and then settles down next to the blond, Shion's complete unresponsiveness continues, so much so that Mu's gaze turns from something bordering angry to worried, and finally, with a sigh, to sympathetic. He puts a hand on Shion's shoulder. At the touch, Shion's gaze shifts to the other man, but his eyes, as before, reflect nothing.]


It's...not something easy to swallow, I know...

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[ram-of-gold.livejournal.com]

[It takes Shion a moment to find his voice, but when he does it's pain filled]

They are...gone. [It's said as if this is the first time he's realizing this, or at least the first time he's acknowledged the void where he knows something should be.]

[lamb_of_gold]

Yes they are. [His tone is sympathetic. He's been here before, and he's finding it hard to ignore the sad!vibes coming from Shion, so he squirms a bit closer and lets his cosmo burn quiet, warm and comforting, like a blanket.]

[ram-of-gold.livejournal.com]

[He leans toward Mu, wanting the comfort more than he wants to admit. Anyone else he normally would have trusted in this, Sage, Manigoldo, is already gone. That only intensifies the loneliness and the ache when he realizes that.] I should have listened to the both of you.

[lamb_of_gold]

I somehow doubt it would have changed things. [he tugs lightly at the shoulder of the cloth, coaxing it off]

[ram-of-gold.livejournal.com]

[Lets the Cloth leave him without much of a fight. It had felt heavy for the first time since he had put it on] But if I had not been there, then perhaps he wouldn't have followed. [He doesn't feel the need to elaborate on who 'he' is]

[lamb_of_gold]

Tenma came. He would have followed his student anywhere.

[ram-of-gold.livejournal.com]

Yes...[He knows how much Dohko had cared about his student] ...I feel as if there was something more I should have done. I shouldn't just have left him there!

[lamb_of_gold]

He wouldn't have forgiven you if you'd stayed. [He cozies a bit closer to Shion, sitting right up against him now. He figures Shion probably wants/needs the contact about now]

[ram-of-gold.livejournal.com]

[For once Shion does appreciate the closeness. He also can't deny what Mu has said] He would be the first to laugh if he could see me now. A Saint should be stronger than this.

[lamb_of_gold]

[Somehow he can't help but think about how he felt when Milo up and died on him.]

Its....not as though we can simply ignore the fact that those dear to us have lost their lives.

[ram-of-gold.livejournal.com]

[He nods, but it hurts to think of] Yet after what they did...would they truly want us to shed tears for them? It dishonors their memories...

[lamb_of_gold]

The true dishonour would be to waste the opportunities they've given us.

[ram-of-gold.livejournal.com]

..That is the one thing I do not intend to to. Hades will pay for this!

[lamb_of_gold]

[There's the Shion he knows! Mu allows himself a small smile] Yes he will. Dearly so.