Lunchtime (ota - dual pup post)

[loves_a_cylon]

Business at the cafe today was pretty steady. It wasn't overly busy, which was good because Helo had decided to start organizing his daughter's birthday plans. Decorations were bought and he had a list of potential gifts for Hera. He still had to get a cake and needed to ask Laura about that. Games were probably necessary too. He had been told by a

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Tag Death

[needsthumpin]

Kerai walked into the cafe, pregnancy just at the stage where it was clear she was pregnant, and not just pot-bellied, and with a book under her arm. She noted the man at the table outside, and found herself thinking she was glad he was eating--he looked like he could use it. Her eyes kept being drawn to him as she picked up her own food (tuna salad on whole wheat, a mixed fruit cup, carrot sticks and a glass of milk) and on impulse took it outside.

The Weave was singing her confusing things as she looked at him. Many souls, all from among those still alive, were sounding strident notes of fear about him. Other souls, were sounding deep attention getting, but calm notes: 'this is a big, important thing, but it just IS' awe, but no fear. Others, and many of them the loudest and most recent, sang ecstatic but peaceful hymns as though to a savior. She didn't realize she was staring as she stood there, tray in her hands, book under her arm, trying to make sense of the widely different feelings.

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[cant_cheat_me]

"You'll want to eat that sandwich before it goes bad." He said it before he actually looked up from the book. When he did, his expression seemed to stay the same. "I don't believe spoiled tuna is good for a growing child."

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[needsthumpin]

Kerai tilted her head.

"This is going to sound like a bad attempt at seduction, but do I know you?"

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[cant_cheat_me]

He placed the tassel of the book in the spine of the book and regarded her again. "Everyone is aware of me to some degree. Some are more familiar than others."

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[needsthumpin]

She looked at one of the chairs at his table, then at him, suddenly dry-mouthed. She licked her bottom lip, and holding it between her teeth, swallowed.

"May I?" She took a breath. "It's just I feel that I know you...intimately." She frowned. "But I don't remember."

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[cant_cheat_me]

He normally didn't accept such an offer, but Kerai was not like most humans. He paused and then nodded once in agreement as he closed the book, bookmark in place. "We have not formally met, if that is what you're wondering."

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[needsthumpin]

Kerai sat, and took a drink of her milk, and took a bite of her sandwich, chewing as she thought, eyes distant as she tried to make sense of the varying feelings in the Weave.

"And perhaps it's not I that's met you at all." She tried to sense him, but there was no spirit to sense, nor even that sense of vast, but indefinite, latent power she got from Chuck and the angels. She sensed nothing...but no. She sensed nothing, a nothingness so profound as to be something. It was awesome, in the true sense of the word, conducive to a feeling of terror/wonder, yet also somehow restful. Even the voices in the Weave that were frightened began to calm with the contemplation of it.

She was staring again.

"Surely you cannot be stuck here?" She wasn't sure who or what he was, but the vastness was more than she could comprehend, even with all the threads in the Weave, going back to the beginning, and stretching into the future to give her a scale.

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[cant_cheat_me]

He lifted the drink to his lips while she stared for a moment and then placed it back on the table once he had parched his thirst. "I'm not, if you must know. I came here on my own accord." And he could leave when he wanted to. He was on vacation.

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[needsthumpin]

"I didn't have to know, but I can understand why you told me." She didn't smile at him, but there was something in her face as she breathed out, closing her eyes for a moment, just being in his presence -- it was peace.

"Thank you."

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[cant_cheat_me]

Death was not entirely accustomed to being respected on this level by people in the village. It was mostly because most mortals were so caught up in their own thing, they could not see reality in front of them.

He looked at her with the vagueness sense of interest hinted on his face. "For?"

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[needsthumpin]

Kerai didn't answer right away, trying to find words for her thoughts

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[cant_cheat_me]

"You expressed yourself more succinct then most." Which was refreshing since Death was not quite used to that. "Often when a mortal discovers who I am, they're quick to either curse, question, or bargain with me. There is little acceptance until the moment arrives."

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[needsthumpin]

"I've had that moment, billions of times," she replied, then smiled.

"Anyway. Thank you -- for being. Of course, you would anyway, but you're welcome to all the satisfaction that some appreciation of the fact might give."

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[cant_cheat_me]

Death didn't quite know how to take a compliment from a mortal. They were so rarely given to him in such a context. "Death is a necessity of life." Which was his way of saying thank you.

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[needsthumpin]

"Yes, it very much is." Her face grew sad, thinking of the shortest threads in the Weave, the orphaned children dead of cold and hunger, and a whole birthing hospital full of newborns dead, along with their mothers, in Fleet's bombing of Eild...

"Though it seems cruel when you come so soon, that's not your fault, but our own."

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[cant_cheat_me]

"Some souls are not meant for a long stay, but they all have value." It was a lesson not everyone seemed to understand. Some people seemed to think it was all about the years you lived, rather than the soul itself.