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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 7

"I...I see..."

She reached out lightly to pat Nyx's shoulder, even though Palutena herself was still...trying to ease up her own emotions.

"I hope it gets easier on us both ..."

A tired sigh left her.

"I haven't even figured out how to stop blaming myself for it."

Nightmother: Nyx @nightlygoddess.bsky.social · Jun 7

"I lost him...a long long time ago...and that's why I can't lie to you and tell you the pain will go away. It never does..."

She...was tormented by loss quite a bit...too much to ever really move on..

"It gets easier...and one day you'll feel better about it...but the pain never truly leaves you."

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 7

"I feel like I don't even know what to do anymore..."

She trailed off, frowning as she rested beside the other, "Your husband too...? I'm...so sorry to hear that."

She exhaled deeply, her eyes still watery from all the thoughts in her head.

"I relive that day every single day, it feels."

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 7

"I feel like I don't even know what to do anymore..."

She trailed off, frowning as she rested beside the other, "Your husband too...? I'm...so sorry to hear that."

She exhaled deeply, her eyes still watery from all the thoughts in her head.

"I relive that day every single day, it feels."

Nightmother: Nyx @nightlygoddess.bsky.social · Jun 7

"And the news of my husband still flash in my mind every so often...I can't help but hurt over it still..."

That shadowy tentacle continued to stroke her back slowly...doing it's best to comfort her...

"These things never truly leave you...you just have to continue onward despite it all..."

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 7

"Just...still mourning my son. My own shortcomings cost him his life. And I can't ever change that..."

She sighed, curling herself up more into a ball.

"It's been so long but I still hear it like yesterday."

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 7

"Just...still mourning my son. My own shortcomings cost him his life. And I can't ever change that..."

She sighed, curling herself up more into a ball.

"It's been so long but I still hear it like yesterday."

Nightmother: Nyx @nightlygoddess.bsky.social · Jun 7

"It's alright. We all need our time to talk...I've nothing better to do anyway.."

She yawns again...her eyes fluttering softly as she tried to get herself fully awake...

"We can stay and talk...for as long as you need to.."

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

Another shudder. A soft, pained sigh leaving her.

"Delaying the inevitable... I wonder sometimes if that's all I did in the end..."

Slowly, she drew a breath to try to steady herself.

"...heh, I'm sorry. I shouldn't be complaining..."

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 5

Throws a single solitary baby carrot into a bowl.

BLOOD_IS_FUEL @unsatedhunger.bsky.social · Jun 4

THEN BOWL
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Yeah he's still going...

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

"...you gonna eat all those bowls or can I have one for actual food."

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

you're doing a good job despite everything that happened."

She exhaled slowly, closing her eyes.

"... I'm...proud of you. For whatever that may count, given the trials you've endured."

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

Palutena couldn't help but smile the slightest bit. Her eyes were still extremely watery, despite her attempts to clear them.

"...a miraculous encounter. I can understand why that would lift your faith back up. I'm so glad you were able to find that path. I know we just met but I think

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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

{hi I'm Jarod 19 and I don't know how to read.

also man, I made a sad Palu

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

"Where do I even go now-?"

She's looking rough, just sitting on a lonely bench by a bustling street. Humanity ever alive, at which she was thankful.

But sitting here alone, not sporting any of her usual outfit. Simply a dark blue gown, barely even shoes.

"... what's the point anyway."

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

{i am: having an interesting time

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

{also it's nice to meet you all the same

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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

{THAT'S SO BANGER

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

{o fuck hi--- 👀

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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

"A son..."

Her voice trembled a bit, and she bit her lip, "O-Oh I...I hope that doesn't mean that somewhere, somehow, someone else is suffering because..."

She couldn't bear to finish the sentence, but... She did slowly manage to nod.

"...I would love to hear about him. If ...if that's okay."

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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

{okay this sounds fascinating

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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

{well then.

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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

{do I sense lore

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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

{I'm already baffled that someone muses him this makes that feel weirder

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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

{why is this such a foreboding sentence to me

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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

He told me about it the whole day before... But then I lost both of them in one fell swoop. One failure of myself. I hope that wherever their souls fell away to, Underworld or otherwise, they're together peacefully there."

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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

She sighed, hugging her knees to her chest and rocking slightly. Just slightly. Side, to side, back again. A metronome, lost in her own head. But, she smiled. Slightly. Bittersweetly.

"...my sweet son loved his other half too. He wanted to tell him, after the fight.

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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

"You have a sister-? I wonder if mine had a sister...I haven't heard, last I checked my Underworld's status was...not so progressive as yours. The grief that permeates it from his wife...I can feel it even in Skyworld. It's a terrible reminder that Hades went way off the deep end..."

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A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

{sup everyone I'm gonna die from feels and yelling, bye

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

{WHAT THE FUCK, THIS BADASS LORE IS BLESSED I'M SO ---

/Flips chairs

/ Flips tables

/ SCREAMS -??????

A Goddess Wearing Away @descendinglight.bsky.social · Jun 4

"Skyworld quickly felt so terribly cold without him. It's a hole that I can't sew shut and..."

A long, painful sigh.

"...I held him in his final breaths, I would have taken myself out with him if I had caused that finality..."

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