#sterlingsilvertongue

[divinityesque]

A Sin So Divine || closed w/sterlingsilvertongue

Azerith watched from the balcony at his mentor and the stranger he claimed was his brother.  Though he’d only heard about him through the whispers of others they didn’t seem to mesh with the familiarity the Sin had that man. However he wanted to trust Lust, he and Wrath taught him everything he knew, now he was consorting with a known enemy. Even though he had crossed lines in the past to get things done he was able to call in favors from ones to this day even caused the Demon to be surprised at the others reach.

He couldn’t hear them! This wasn’t right why was this happening? They were speaking about something very intense.  Luxuria’s gestures appeared that he was telling the other he was not a threat. Yet the man kept looking at him in a way as if he’d seen a ghost.  Did he know of him in some way or did he have some misguided thought that he, due to his position was angling to overthrow the Prince in some underhanded way?  That would never happen, no matter what spoils were promised.  

Lust would never turn against him either, he wasn’t like his other siblings he looked at things much differently than they did.  That is what made him such a good teacher, mentor and even sometimes lover.  Azerith was seething, this had gone on long enough. This guy comes in here flaunting his divinity and discrediting him. He was not going to allow that, not by a long shot.

Heading back in the direction of the balcony door Gage suddenly appeared between him and the door, the blond looked just as confused at being outside as the Demon did to see him.

“-the fuck, how did I get out here?” Gage said as he scratched his head.

“Excuse me,” Azerith began as he went to grasp the handle of the door.

It wouldn’t slide open!

“I was aiming for inside. I haven’t overshot like this in quite a while.” Gage said as an afterthought while noticing Azerith couldn’t open the door.

This was alarming, the door wouldn’t open but he could still see the two engaged in conversation.  He tried to will himself inside the apartment, but what he got for his efforts was a weird bounce back effect.  For that to happen was abnormal, trying again he wound up in the hallway.  Fuck!  Once back on the balcony he saw the Hound looking inside.

‘What is going on?’ Azerith mused to himself.

“You can’t get in either?” Gage inquired and by now noticed who was inside, then smiled, “Alex.”

This stopped Azerith from willing the glass to break because by this time he was really to make it rain glass shards in there.  Suddenly Lust looked back, brought his hand up and shook his head in the negative.  Looking over at Gage, “You know him?

“Yea that’s Lust’s brother and if the room is sealed that means there is something really heavy going on they need to discuss.” The young Hound said walking over to the balcony railing, hopping up to sit on it.  Turning around, he sat and looked at the view, “He’s very cool, but their father wasn’t very happy with him.

Even without sound, Azerith could tell the mood had shifted in the room.  Lust suddenly stepped back from the other as if he’d got news that was either shock or surprise.  Turning from his brother the Sin locked eyes with Azerith on the other side of the glass then turned to face his the other again. He shrugged and brought up his hands in a questioning gesture. Lust looked up, giving a heavy visible sigh running his hands over his face and through his dark hair.

“Back soon, that warehouse is about to flashover,” Gage announced disappearing from the railing.

Suddenly the doors blew open causing Azerith to step back from them.  In the same instance, he caught the end of Lust’s sentence and his voice sounded regretful.

“-so sorry.”

The Sin turned to face Azerith gesturing him inside, “There is something you need to hear, that I had no prior knowledge of. I am extremely remorseful that I was not made aware of something sooner.  Azerith Napier, allow me to introduce you to my brother, Alexander Sterling, Eros, he has something that he wishes to say to you.”

Looking from one to the other he wasn’t sure where this was going because the atmosphere was crushing. What did he have to apologize for? Lust seemed composed but the way his arms were folded it was clear he was about to do something that was going to result in copious amounts of bloodshed and lives lost.  This bothered Azerith a great deal as he went to step closer to the Sin certain that this stranger he’d just introduced him to was the cause for his mentor's concern.

Normally he would’ve attacked by now, while he glared at the other, “What do you have to say that would be of any interest to me?”

Lust cut in, “Azerith, not now.  I know what you are doing but as I said it’s unnecessary.”

What pleb level of Hell this? Lust asking him to stand down?  This guy and his divine mind fuck trick was about to very sorry.

Once again in a very disinterested tone, he said with a shrug, “What?”

{Follow the conversation from inside with Luxuria and Alex here}

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[truesymphony-a]

@sterlingsilvertongue continued from ( x )

“Hey, if ya are gonna say thins like that this is the best place.  We can share our woes over good drinks.”  She offered a smile to him before nodding.  “I’m Rachael but ya can call me Ray.”  she twisted around in her chair so she was completely facing him.  Her hand extended out to him.  “So Alex, can I buy ya the next drink?”

[et-elegit-mortem]

Tis a pleasure

Cerberus had been serious about him training under the Alpha, Coronatus that resided here with his charge.  Gage would have preferred it if he’d stayed in the wind and left him to look after Lust on his own.  He liked it that way; it wasn’t that three was a crowd but in this case, it was as far as he was concerned.  Though he didn’t hold his tongue when the Alpha came for him which seemed to be on a daily basis, regardless if he was to be training him or not. They would finish their conversation one day.  The Alpha was very accomplished at what he did but Gage had strengths as well.  If he hadn’t Cerberus never would have saved him from death, that was something the Hellhound in Training had to struggle to remember especially on days that were specifically unpleasant.  Along with the fact that the Alpha got to spend so much time with the Prince, especially when they were gone for extended amounts of time.

It wasn’t fair!

A slow smile came to the blondes’ face as he thought of dowsing that mutt with gasoline and setting him ablaze as he done to countless others on the last day of his life.  But that would have not gone well for him from so many different directions.  

But he could dream.

Lust was sitting on the sofa, his legs crossed at the ankles as he sketched not a word passed between them (at least not audibly) as Lust had insisted that he didn’t have to be watched. However, he wasn’t going to neglect his charge Gage would be sure to stay by his side no matter what.  Where was the Alpha?  In another part of the apartment doing something that was by far nowhere as important as guarding one of Lucifer’s own.  That was idleness for you.

Suddenly there was a shift in the room and Gage’s head snapped up from when he had been watching Lust. If he could feel the change he knew the Sin must’ve but he never paused from what he was doing and he shouldn’t have as it was Gage’s job to protect him.  Now with such a serious threat in the air where was the Alpha?  

Nowhere in sight!

‘With all due respect, I know you are not powerless Sire but it my duty to look after you.’ Gage replied in kind to the telepathic statement from the Sin.

A man suddenly appeared in the room.  Tall and elegant he was but his power-it radiated from him but there was also something else that the young Hound sensed, Divinity.  Though faint how could it be?  

At the same time Lust looked up and before he could speak Gage was engaging the stranger and the threat by placing himself between the two, “I don’t know who you are.  But you have some nerve coming here in this way.  You will not harm Him.”

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[tempus-et-tenebrae]

Darkness

“It is so good to see you again, Alexander.” He said placing his hand on the shoulder of the Incubus.  

Pausing for a moment, he could still feel the power that dwelled beneath that albeit perfect, yet fragile human shell. Though protected by the one that wore it still for that type of entity fragile just the same. This was never the way it was supposed to be.  Even the Father Time himself could not undo the blasphemous wrong that had been done to such a splendid and powerful being.

From time to time he had looked in to see how Eros was adjusting.  Then as with any ebb and flow, periods of such darkness that seemed to swallow him alive. But still, here he was, eons later love everlasting.

Normally Khronos stayed eerily detached from those that dwelled within the countless worlds, planes, and galaxies he oversaw.  But never had he’d witnessed such travesty as he did that day when the sacred core had been corrupted. 

“I have wept for you Child, but I am glad to see your light still remains even in the face of such adversity.”  

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[nanlanmoarchived]

for @sterlingsilvertongue from x

The vampire’d been texting one of her assistants with whom she’d been fighting over policy with and she hadn’t realized until the other replied in question to her comment. “Shit. Sorry, I--” She sighed softly, shaking her head, “Just a whole lot of people weighing in on some personal decisions and it’s drivin’ me crazy.”

[et-elegit-mortem]

Unexpected Guest

Continued from (x)

For hours the incubus had fought to find refuge in a few moments of real rest. Sleep was something that constantly evaded him. It was something he rarely eve thought of, but his old bones were tired. It took forever, but after falling into slumber, he slipped into something deeper. Nightmares were nothing new to him, but this place…. this plane, it was a bit different. It surpassed nightmares and terrors. It was a place where both the land of dreams and the confines of reality met. It was a place he rarely found himself, and he hated when he did. It meant he was hell adjacent, and he was far too close to a place he refused to call home.

“Hello?” He called, his voice echoing before he heard the first snarl. It was a guttural sound that came from the depths of a beast he truly despised.  

Before he registered it, he was running and his breath was hard to catch. He felt like he was drowning, lungs burning like acid as he tried to get away from the very hound of hell himself in a place that he could only call a bog.

Caught between waking and sleeping, he’d managed to whisper his brother’s name, and now that reality was ready to swallow him whole, he was trying to get his bearings. “Cerberus….” was the only word he could find.

When Gage heard that name it caused him to stand back from Alex for a moment out of surprise.

‘Why would Cerberus do this?’ he thought to himself while shaking his head, it didn’t make any sense because there was simply no reason.

Purgatory is a vast and unforgiving forest if you are not supposed to be there. But should you take a wrong turn down any of its nightmarish paths Satan only knows what you will find?  There is a part that is close to something living humans and anyone else that wanders or is pushed a little too close.  And Alex’s behavior was a hallmark for someone that had been in that horrible place, especially with his taking so long to respond.  It’s where lucid dreaming has been perverted in such a way that one is fully awake when experiencing it, but the body can’t quite make sense of it and knows that it’s not possible.  The end result is a horrific ‘fun house’ effect.  No matter which way you turn, or what choice you make you are doomed to a loop that gets worse and worse with every replay.

Usually, that is used on those that have lost their way or have been standing at the proverbial fork in the road for far too long.  But where did Alex fit into all this?  Surely this had to be some misunderstanding.

“You are safe here, Divine One.  No harm will come to you in this place.  But I need for you to find your way completely back to this side of reality first.” Gage paused as he sat beside Alex once again and took both of his hands.

Closing his eyes, he continued, “Show me the smallest flash of where you are so I can pull you out.  You are caught somewhere you were never supposed to tread.”

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[et-elegit-mortem]

Gage noticed the shift before the other appeared, consider it almost like everything shutting down to reboot itself.  Walking through the house the young hound followed the source of the power because it was not something he could ignore because though it was familiar it was very unexpected. Just as he rounded the corner he noticed Alex had appeared.

“Is everything okay?” he asked, as got him to sit down on the sofa.

Normally for one such as himself the scent of the sanctity would not a pleasant scent but perhaps Gage was simply biased from the first time he’d laid eyes on Alex.  However it was just like his brother, Lust, described about his brother Eros, ‘He always seemed to fill the space with the scent of lilies,’ and nothing was further from the truth.  It seemed to hold the undertones of pure love and memories of those things related.

Stepping away briefly to the call linen closet he returned with a large bath sheet to help the other dry off. Returning to the living room he sat beside the Virtue, since the other had yet to say anything.  Very carefully he blotted at his soaked hair.  He didn’t seem exactly shaken but he didn’t seem to be fully grounded here at the moment either.  Rising slowly as he began to towel the top of his head Gage paused because something just didn’t feel right.  

Once again he asked quietly, “Alex, it’s me Gage what happened?”