(Untitled)

[theunseendotcom]

Too many great things had happened in the King's time to know that this would be the end of him. He was a fool for listening to another God and believing that the transmutation would be so simple. Alchemy's number one rule of basis; For every thing created, an equivalent exchange must be made. And in exchange for making a human's soul immortal,

Comments

[swift_wings]

Thanatos left Lady Death's hand at her side a moment and stepped forward laying a clammy hand against Hades feverish forehead: "You shouldn't have waited this long Lord Hades. It was not wise to allow your light to come so close to diminishing. The burning candle so close to the end of its wick. Your flame is eternal. By exchanging what you did with her you took a cancer into yourself. The cancer of mortality. There are other ways of bestowing godhood on mortals without bringing infliction upon yourself. Psyche after all was once a mortal. What you did was unnatural

[nephthys_dotcom]

Nephthys was trying hard not to look upset, she was trying very, very hard, but Thanatos' words were too terrible to even consider. She had wept for days straight when Seth killed Osiris, even as she assisted Isis in finding the parts of his body. Gods simply were not meant to die. It was not right. It was... as Thanatos said... unnatural.

Swallowing hard, she stood very quietly behind the three Greeks, hands knitting and re-knitting behind her back. As she watched, she tried to imagine the virile god who had teased her at the party, so long ago. His image would not come to her mind, while she looked at this pain-wracked shell in front of her. Too horrified, too saddened, to continue searching for the god she'd met, she bowed her head and did her best to stay as quiet and as unobtrusive as possible.

Nephthys was a very good wallflower.

[theunseendotcom]

What Thanatos had proposed, disgusted the king. He was not angry at the Death God, but rather his own stupidity. Hades had been Lord of the Underworld for eons, one of the greatest Kings of their world...he had neither surrendered nor bowed to anyone in his existence. And now, due to one small infraction in a mistake he had made...he would forever be an ailing God.

"I did not know what was happening to me, Thanatos. At first I thought it was simply mourning for my child's death that made me feel so infinitely hopeless...however, when the time came to pull myself out from the stupor, I could not. I could not even grasp the smallest of threads of my power...all that has kept me going this long has been attested to my wife and mother." Hades explained quietly, his arm going acrossed his eyes where he rested.

'What you did was unnatural.'Aidoneus smirked at that, yes...indeed what he had done was unnatural. However, it was necessary to bar others from the Underworld with the war they had been on the brink of. Now, that time was merely a

[swift_wings]

Thanatos glanced over his shoulder at the lovely Death goddess observing the proceedings and than turned his dark stare back toward Hades. His darkened glance did not betrayal his crytic thoughts.

"No Lord Hades, It was not unfortunate, nor vain that your actions despite how unsound they were possibly thwarted a war. However, I think the next time such actions are thought to be taken to protect the Underworld you should seek the advisement of another,” His eyes shifted toward Athena.

"There should be an option that doesn’t involve such drastic sacrifice. It creates more problems than it resolves."

Death was drawn closer to the fear, but he gained no satisfaction from it. He took one of Hades hands and held it. The news told to him may have seemed glum, but Thanatos' stoicism did not waiver: "Scattered where?"

[theunseendotcom]

Aidoneus felt very ill then and he sunk into the pillows that were sat up behind him. It was hard to say if it was his mood that made him drop so or the illness that ate at him, but whatever the case was he looked quite pale. How strange and cruel the Fates could be, he considered as he narrowed his eyes at the ceiling and then looked up to Thanatos when he joined him at the beside. Hades mustered a smile when the Death God took his hand; it felt good for a moment to be reminded that he did have friends after all

[swift_wings]

Thanatos had no doubt that if Hades came through this experience that it would only strengthen the lord and leave him wiser than he was before. Hades' appearance did not worry him, for Hades was a powerful deity who he couldn't fathom being so lost and confused in death that he was unable to regenerate himself.

"You have one thing humans don't have when they are informed that they are going to die. You have the luxury of knowing what they don't, you've knowledge of the great unknown whereas some of them have only their faith in what lies behind their material existence. You now, must have faith in something that is unknown to you---you must have faith in the cure. If the ashes rest in the riverbed of Styx than there is hope that not all has been absorbed or carried away in the current, some could have sunk as sediment to the base. The river can possibly regurgitate it."