RP: Is this Heaven?

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There is a reception area, and at first glance, it looks to be like most reception areas: there is a front desk, a hallway that leads away, boasting a row of doors appearing to go on forever; there are two other doors immediately visible, one bearing the words Conference Room and the other Committee Chair, both etched in fine glass. All of the décor is elegant, if cold: everything is done up in blues and whites, and the chairs and couches provided look like they were chosen more for their appearance over their actual functionality.

If not for the sense of other in the room, it might seem like an ordinary office building.

It isn’t.

Welcome to heaven! Feel free to explore. A very freaked out Gabriel will probably greet you at some point.

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[serpentine]

Vale raised an eyebrow. "Again? So your temper seems to have gotten you in trouble before. Is that why you were banished from your precious home?"

[shadowsong26]

"I was banished because I lost a war," Lux said. The role her temper may or may not have played in that loss wasn't something she had considered. It certainly had played a role in how she'd botched the execution of her summoners, though. She should work on that in the future.

[serpentine]

"Wars are unpleasant things. Did you start it?" Vale for his part was now genuinely curious. While he had never been under true threat of losing his lands, he's had obnoxious humans try and unseat him.

He was rather glad that his opposite number was only his sometime rival.

[shadowsong26]

Well, that was the question, wasn't it. If she had started it, by asking her questions and advocating the changes Heaven needed, or if Michaela had by refusing to listen and then organizing the battle lines. "Perhaps. Or perhaps Michaela did. I opened the dispute nonviolently, but Michaela escalated the conflict, and both of us were too stubborn to back down."

[serpentine]

"Ah, one of those complicated situations."

Vale looked about him at the fire that still ringed the two of them.

"Perhaps, it would be best to put this out, lest someone else get hurt. There are a lot of humans around here, after all."

[shadowsong26]

Lux smiled faintly--she had perfect control of her fire. She had never hurt anyone accidentally. Even Mariko had been deliberate, if deeply regrettable.

Still, she had made her point. She could concede this much. "Very well." With a breath, the fire dissipated, leaving a ring of ash in Heaven's carpeting.

And it was petty and more than a little spiteful, but she left that ring for someone who still lived here to clean up.

[serpentine]

Vale nodded. He was pretty sure starting a fight on unfamiliar territory was a bad thing.

"I'm sure your home is lovely," he conceded, "After all, my underworld is quite boring as well. Dead humans tend to want to be left in peace."

He paused.

"Now...my lands in the middle realm...that's different, even if the humans can be quite aggravating."

[shadowsong26]

Lux arched an eyebrow. "The middle realm? What sort of aggravating humans collect there?"

[serpentine]

"Oh, the world between the heavens and the underworld...a lot of them call it Earth." Vale shrugged.

[shadowsong26]

"Ah, I see." Hearing Earth set aside like that was a little strange, but, then, different dimensions logically had different classification systems. "Yes, I do suppose a good portion of living humans are intensely aggravating. As are most other beings, most days."

[serpentine]

"They can be entertaining enough. My pet human is nice enough. Though...he's not entirely human." He grinned, thinking of Kostya.

[shadowsong26]

Lux smiled herself. "Yes, I suppose that's true, they're certainly entertaining. And my pet human is brilliant, and remarkably forgiving."

[serpentine]

Vale thought a bit about Kostya.

"Mine's grumpy, but adorable." Also very fun to play with in bed, but he didn't say that.

[shadowsong26]

"What's his name?" she asked. Adorable--hm, it didn't seem to fit Mariko. A little too juvenile, based on her understanding of the word. Grumpy, though, sometimes she was that.

[serpentine]

"Kostya. Yours?" He almost told her that he was a prince, but perhaps it was wiser not to tell the whole story.

[shadowsong26]

"Mariko," she answered. "How did you find him?"

[serpentine]

"Well...I didn't exactly find him," he replied, unsure of how much he should say, "In a sense, he's always belonged to me, however the affection is mutual."

"I take it you found yours."

[shadowsong26]

Lux tilted her head, considering. "More like she found me, I think. I was deep in hiding, to avoid a resurgance of my war, when she crossed my path. And things are complicated between us at the moment, but I believe she does retain some affection for me."

[serpentine]

"So she became your refuge?" Humans were kind like that sometimes, he found. Though they could also be rather awful.

[shadowsong26]

"In...a sense," she replied slowly. "It was unwise to make her so, bad for both of us. And yet I'm drawn to her, and she hasn't turned me away."