macuilli. harvester of hearts.

[leadsthestars]

[ Video: Coyolxauhqui is seen sitting cross-legged on the floor of a cabin that is quite obviously not her own. In the background there are piles of bulky burlap sacks, and at one point there's just a glimpse of someone else walking by...a certain someone else who wears woolen trousers and olde-time shoes

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[453gof_flesh]

[He snickers in the background.]

How long before they come and break in my door, then?

[He didn't look too bothered by the idea.]

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[leadsthestars]

[She shrugs. She's on her back now, looking at the cardigan again.]

It does not matter when.

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[453gof_flesh]

[He starts casually sifting through his drawers, as if he's looking for something.]

Not really. I mean, if you've done what you needed to do... nothing can go back on it now, so whatever punishment they come up with is negligable, right?

[Unlike his plans, which got stopped before they got started, and that made him angry.]

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[leadsthestars]

[The goddess touches her face and sighs happily.]

That I am to be punished is the crime.

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[453gof_flesh]

[Clapet gives her a sympathetic nod and carries on rummaging]

Ah, oui, but they will have their ways. We shall see how efficient they are, though.

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[leadsthestars]

[She murmurs two words:] Blood debt.

[Coyolxauhqui looks distractedly at her fingertips.] Yes. We shall.

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[453gof_flesh]

[Clapet finds a chair, sits back in it, lights a cigarette and asks casually,]

Who is the blood debt to exactly?

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[leadsthestars]

Those who came before us, who made us what we are. We pay blood debt to them.

I think to demand it too.

[Coyolxauhqui tilts her head back to look at him.] Without it, the world ends.

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[453gof_flesh]

[Clapet nodded, not entirely understanding why but presuming it was a goddess thing, and if she believed it stopped the world ending... well, that made a lot more sense to him. Even if he didn't believe it did.]

Ah. Well, if it's to stop the world ending, I couldn't think of a more worthy cause. How... how much blood is needed to stop it ending?

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[leadsthestars]

It depends on the deity. To appease Tlaloc, the sacrifice of children is necessary.

To appease me...[Coyolxauhqui looks a little distant at this. She speaks softly,] I am the reason for blood debt. I was the sacrifice.

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[453gof_flesh]

Children. [He repeated the word a little stonily, because he had a daughter, and it wasn't quite so... simple to dismiss anymore. But... things were different for them, he guessed.]

You were the sacrifice? Is that an... honour, or was it a sort of punishment?

[Or just destiny. Destiny could lead you all sorts of places.]

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[leadsthestars]

[Her gaze becomes mournful.]

I was killed in a way that his mimicked by mortals. I was beheaded and my body fell to pieces. It rolled down Coatepec. It fell and fell, and I fell to bits.

Blood debt is now repaid in this way.

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[453gof_flesh]

[Clapet blinks a little and takes a long drag from his cigarette, as he isn't sure what to say,]

So... you were the first? Is that why you're a goddess?

[He didn't really want to push it, but his curiosity was getting the better of him.]

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[leadsthestars]

My parents are divine. That is why I am a goddess.

I am goddess of the moon because that is what my head became. My brother threw it into the sky.

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[453gof_flesh]

Oh. I thought you God folk stuck together.

[He wasn't great at this ancient mythology kind of thing.]

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[leadsthestars]

[She glares at him for that.]