We decide that hell even superheroes need time off. Not just to get some rest and heal up but to actually take some time off. I look forward to actually doing some normal stuff, as much as that is possible with us. So we all go off in our own directions to relax in our own ways. The Padre gets a case of miracle-gro and reconnects with his inner plant and makes a simple but covert request of Ohm that sets him off. Ohm has it out with the Padre and raises basically the same concerns I did a few weeks ago. Ohm has the Padre swear an oath to the group and to our mission. This should prove interesting. As a fae the Padre will take this oath seriously, but they tend to live by the letter of the agreement and find ways around it. Mages on the other hand tend towards the spirit of the agreement, especially an Obrimos of the Arrow. Red goes off and does.. something. I'm not sure exactly what he is off doing. Ohm heads out east to an Arrow boot camp. He has an odd idea of relaxation, not that there is anything wrong with that. Danno relaxes by going back to work. He also has a strange idea of relaxation. Then again I spent a chunk of my time writing up some scientific papers for the Threnodists. I suppose that seems odd to the others. It was relaxing though, even therapeutic. I was also using the papers to see if I could find a Master of Space or Mind to help me codify my new discoveries into rotes. The rest of the time I spend with Kat which is all the therapy I need. Dinner and a movie is about as normal as we can get. Well normal except that dinner and movie is anywhere in the world she wants to go in a moments notice, the benefit of our connection allowing her to teleport along with me.
I for one feel renewed and centered. I am ready to take on the world.
Cygin
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This was a fantastic week. I would even dare to say the best vacation ever. I was able to relax and forget about all the shit that was going down. Spend some time just thinking about the universe on a very abstract level. And then there was the time with Kat. We did normal things and not so normal things. We talked a lot and I finally began to inquire into her past. I was very curious as to what drew her to this rag tag little group and most importantly, to me. She had dreams of a lone figure lost in the shadow realm and knew she was supposed to guide him out. As she said this memories began to flood back in. I had nearly forgotten how I ended up near Chicago in the first place. I had really thought that I had just went mad for those few weeks. I had thought the nightmares and shadows were just in my head and I made my way here in a fog. But as I look into her piercing amber eyes I began to remember. Those eyes were always there, always watching, always following. Or it appears I was following them. They weren't like the other glowing eyes I encountered along the path. Glowing with malevolence and hunger, those amber eyes were always soothing and kind. Those eyes were guiding me through the nightmare of the shadow realm. She has been watching over me and saving my ass since day one.
She continued on with her story. Soon after she returned me safely to the fallen world. Jericho has informed her of this group he was putting together. She knew this wasn't a coincidence and her intuition told her that the figure she saved from the shadow realm was one of them, at the time she didn't it was me. She tied up so many loose ends that I had all but forgotten about. She had been watching us as we did our missions for Jericho. There were several occasions where we would see a shadowy figure and we could never get a full glimpse of it, that was her. I had always chalked it up to my lingering madness or even after my awakening I had assumed they were perhaps demons. She had stolen the amulet from Maggie so she could meet with us covertly and figure out what our importance was and if that shadow realm figure was one of us. It wasn't until the fight against Donovan in the village of the damned that she realized that I was the shadowy figure. And now that I look back to that moment when I first saw her change into her garou form, I knew she meant something to me. Normally that kind of change would invoke lunacy in a non supernatural. But I found it to be beautiful and graceful. After all the crazy shit I had seen lately that was bringing me to the brink of madness, I found that change to be natural and normal. That very well may have been the point where my soul began to awake to the supernal. I do know that is when my soul awoke to hers.
An enlightening week this has been. Many questions answered and now new questions are beginning to form. This new information about my past and Kat's has only deepened my love for this half woman half spirit. It has strengthened her importance to me but now I have to wonder what is my importance to her?
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