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[argyrus]

Characters: Kiba and OPEN
Location: The Park
Rating: PG-13
Time: Dec 7, late afternoon into early evening
Description: Kiba makes his way towards the safest place in the city in his mind and tries to figure out his new body

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[impartialsky]

There were a number of things about the situation Zeus recognized man would have thought bizarre. Not only his state of dress, his state of being, but his inclination to move to a fountain to drink instead of finding a stand of some sort to offer beverages. Wide blue eyes half lidded. Zeus might be a master of seeing the forest and not the trees, but even he could recognize his own creations for what they were.

This one, while human in appearance, had not always been as such.

[argyrus]

Kiba didn't exactly hear the other approach, or catch his scent- though the sounds and scents where there. It was more like the hair on his body stood on edge, his instincts alerting him before his brain fully caught up with his other senses. He turned slowly, water still dripping from his face and hair, and just stared at the god.

His belly told him this wasn't just another human- something about the look of the eyes maybe, or the way he stood. It didn't matter to Kiba. To him there were wolves, men, animals and Others. Others like Cheza and spirits and things that made his nose twitch on certain lonely nights. He didn't understand it, and he had no desire to try to. It was just instinct. So he just watched, seeing what Zeus would do.

[impartialsky]

The most fascinating part of Death City, to god, was the wide variation of beings it pulled in. This animal, that angel, those who traveled the stars; himself and his brothers. In some sense it would have been frustrating, not that Zeus recognized the feeling as such, that he had no sway over that BREW machine, or that he fully understood it's functioning. Not for the first time since his arrival, Zeus became aware of a soft stirring in his chest that he imagined what it must be to feel wonder, curiousity.

He levels his gaze evenly and unabashedly with the predator's eyes, considering the differences between this look and the wild one Kadaj had worn. In ways, they were the same, but the latter had been more of a pup. Zeus inclined his head slightly to the left in a rustle of great white feathers, a shiver chasing to the end of each one that cascaded down his back in response to the gathering cold of night.

God had the distinct impression this one hadn't paid attention to all of the information given upon his arrival.

[argyrus]

And said god would be right. While Kiba remembered vaguely what Spirit had said when he first awoke it was mostly overwhelmed by his own shock and panic. And he'd let the rest of the tour pass right on by without a second glance.

"You're not a wolf, or a human. You almost smell like a bird-" he looked at the feathers shifting in the wind for a moment, then back as Zeus, "-but that's not right either." It wasn't a question, just a statement of what he'd learned so far.

[impartialsky]

Zeus did not have a habit of conversing with mortals. In fact, before, he'd rarely opened his mouth to the other gods. It was only recently he had tentatively started touching the curiousity he'd discovered building with his inability to hear all and see all at once. But even then, his words had to be carefully chosen, so as not to give too much away. He still did not need to ask, not when they were so predictable.

Another shiver chased down his spine under the makeshift toga he wore, a white sheet wrapped loose around the slender of his body. His chin dipped slightly as Kiba addressed him. It wasn't a nod, simply looking evenly at the wolf, regarding him as the young beast tried to draw a conclusion about him. It was interesting, Zeus found, of how aware anyone not man could catch on to what he was so swiftly. Instinct, he thought, unclouded by doubt.