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[world_of_elegance]

Character(s): Urd, open!
Content: Urd has lost her true love. Can there be comfort?
Setting: Urd and Ge -- ...Urd's house. :( In M6.
Time: Sunset, week 41
Warnings: None.
Note: To consolidate any and all visits from friends, this log is kinda "party style", as in one comment chain for each visit, all in this post. Thanks!

It was so quiet without him around anymore. Urd never realized just how much life Genie brought to the house. Baking in the kitchen or racing tiny motorcycles through the hallways, impromptu concerts and performances, jokes and songs. Now the house was silent as the grave. Now the house was dull as dirt.

She'd run through a gamut of emotions already. Fear, anger, denial...but there was nothing left but to accept it now. But Urd was tired now. Losing Belldandy twice had been bad, but there was always the knowledge that they were from the same world, to say nothing of the fact that the younger goddess was reunited with Keiichi. And when Belldandy vanished, Genie had always been there to comfort her and lend her some of his seemingly endless strength.

Why did they always leave her behind? In this world and the next, Urd was always watching someone's back as they moved on without her. In the empty house that had once given her so much peace and joy, she pulled her knees to her chest.

Laharl's words still echoed dimly in the back of her mind -- she wasn't giving up yet. She would see him again. Even if it took eternity. Even though her heart hurt so very much, she could feel Genie's power through the pain, thumping along in time with her life. He would always be with her.

Right?

Comments

[meerkatmama]

"What? Timon, I thought you grew out of speaking with your mouth full." Because clearly that was what was going on with this whole pig-Latin thing.

But luckily for Timon, being a mayor meant nothing to Ma. It just went right over her head, and Timon's words led her right back on track, and she focused back to Urd excitedly. Even if this wasn't the thing she should probably... get excited about.

"Oh, yes, of course!" Actually approaching that topic though had Ma's excitement sweep out of her, and she stepped over to Urd, looking up solemnly. "I heard about your loss."

[world_of_elegance]

Her smile froze. For a second, Urd seemed shocked and a little dismayed, but it covered it up smoothly with a casual, effortless hair flip. "Oh?" She reached down and grabbed a cracker. "I guess Timon mentioned something?" She bit into the cracker like a lion into a fresh kill, slanting a secret, murderous look at the meerkat before turning her attention back to his mother.

"It was a shock...I didn't handle it as well as I could have. A part of me never really expected that we'd have to part."

[cowardly_hero]

Timon did his best to avoid Urd`s glance but when his eyes widened that much and his spine stiffened just like that it was clear he was not nearly as oblivious as he let on. He looked around the room in search of anything that would distract him from the thought of Urd`s vengeance. An escape route would probably have been the smartest thing to look for – assuming he would be leaving in one piece.

Knowing his luck both women would turn on him by the end of this.

Sharron I'm BSing shit so bug me if I should change anything XD;;

[meerkatmama]

Timon, if there was anytime to try to escape, now was probably it, because Ma's attention was fully focused on Urd now.

"Oh, honey, we never handle these things the way we want to, but we can't expect to have to handle them. It never goes the way we think it... might. And certainly you don't hope for it to happen." She tilted her head, thoughtful. "When I lost my husband it was just awful! We all expected him to go by a hyena taking off with him, but no! It went completely differently! He was..." She looked down, gaze drifting towards wherever her son had gotten to in the room. Both father and son were... rather... accident prone...

"But! At least you can have the assurance that he's still alive, wherever he may be. You're not lost forever. Just look to the stars until you can meet again."