@conquestofuriel
location: out and aboot
notes: kiss kiss fall in love
Pestilence was a collector. The third rider that swept with the aftermath of war, when disease and rot clung to the vestiges of what remained. His sister would follow him, Adatiel with her finality, but until then the world remained his playground. Mortals were fond of their trophies and it was in Eden that Dumah had first found his own, Epimetheus’ frivolous mind created and discarded vestiges of life, things that would grow and mutate of their own accord. Each version more interesting than the last, destruction wasn’t particularly interesting to him, it was the quiet that came after and the hell that fed on quiet breaths.
Uriel and Azrael were as blazen in their approach as they were in their reverence of their father’s wished, but Dumah had never cared for Ulthar’s approval. He didn’t fight for it as they did, let them boast and fight if they choose, pestilence was intent to follow his father’s decree if it meant he could continue to act as he wished. Of the four of them, only Adatiel seemed to have succeeded in their father’s request: she loved these people, these weak... pathetic meat puppets.
Dumah’s collection lived in the cells of this body he’d taken, kept dormant by latent energy manipulation, he knelt as he brushed his fingers over a beggar and expedited the viral mutation that took its grip immediately. Not as fast as he might have hoped, this weakness that had been opposed upon him and his kind was irritating - to say the least. “Have you found out where the poison is coming from?” Dumah asked as he looked towards Uriel, the elder of the four had fashioned himself their leader, Pestilence only assumed that meant Conquest had to be good for something. The man beneath him groaned as he scratched at scarlet hives that quickly turned to blisters and boils, festering and pussing. Dumah stepped over him and towards Uriel.