![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
[ Whoa, she's realizing now Ogre really wants all of her body. This... this could be the last point she could reasonably back out.]
...
[Instead, Your Name arches her back more. Push her ass against her hand more. Give more of a clearance for Ogre to slip her hand under her shirt more. Her face is completely flushed beet red to the point Ogre could probably feel heat emanating from it, but there's no resistance.
In fact... couldn't turn-about be fair play? Her hands start pawing at Ogre's back, sliding up and down her sides.]
...
[Instead, Your Name arches her back more. Push her ass against her hand more. Give more of a clearance for Ogre to slip her hand under her shirt more. Her face is completely flushed beet red to the point Ogre could probably feel heat emanating from it, but there's no resistance.
In fact... couldn't turn-about be fair play? Her hands start pawing at Ogre's back, sliding up and down her sides.]
[ Ogre's hand slides up further under her shirt -- checking for a bra. Ogre's still wearing tatters herself, exposing skin for Your Name's touch, and there's an approving hum when she feels her hands. Ogre's slim, but there's still muscle and scars evident in places, probably unsurprisingly. ]
Awful forward of you.
Awful forward of you.
[There's a bra. A bit tattered as the rest of Your Name's clothes but easily removable. Whether by the latch behind her, or just pushing the cups up.]
...Can't help it.
[The muscle is attractive. The scars are intriguing. Your Name can't help but be curious enough to try to slip her own hands down to paw at Ogre's chest. Whether it's through a sleeve of her top or right down it. At the same time, intimate kisses are pressed to her lips.]
...Can't help it.
[The muscle is attractive. The scars are intriguing. Your Name can't help but be curious enough to try to slip her own hands down to paw at Ogre's chest. Whether it's through a sleeve of her top or right down it. At the same time, intimate kisses are pressed to her lips.]
[Faith gets a cube!]
Okay... I've got bad news.
Basically, I got cornered by Lily's shepherd who browbeat me, a lot. He forced me to say I was going to give up on trying to punish Honey, so... I told him I'd give up.
That I'd give up. Not that weeds will give up.
Is that all right with you, Faith...? I was only planning on squirting him with a pepper pod, after all.
Okay... I've got bad news.
Basically, I got cornered by Lily's shepherd who browbeat me, a lot. He forced me to say I was going to give up on trying to punish Honey, so... I told him I'd give up.
That I'd give up. Not that weeds will give up.
Is that all right with you, Faith...? I was only planning on squirting him with a pepper pod, after all.
[ She frowns. ]
Lily's shepherd . . . that insolent man.
[ And then, she crosses her arms. ]
That's fine. In fact, you should let it go — for now. They're expecting it, after all. We need to think bigger — much, much bigger.
Lily's shepherd . . . that insolent man.
[ And then, she crosses her arms. ]
That's fine. In fact, you should let it go — for now. They're expecting it, after all. We need to think bigger — much, much bigger.
Right... for the record, he thinks he blackmailed me into dropping it, but it's not true. I don't care what he has to say, even if he screams it to everyone, bell or weed.
Just be careful. That eye is going to open someday. A blood-feud fight to the death with Lily, or the whole pasture, wouldn't be wise.
Just be careful. That eye is going to open someday. A blood-feud fight to the death with Lily, or the whole pasture, wouldn't be wise.
I have just one question for you.
Did he seek you out? Or did you talk to him first?
Did he seek you out? Or did you talk to him first?
Well...
[pause]
...Okay, I may have triggered things. I went and ordered a drink of "betrayal." I just wanted to freak him out a bit. Remind Honey that he's a coward.
What I got back was a glass with a whole lot of words written on it that showed the Shepherd knew some very intimate personal details about the worst moments of my life. I guess that's what he meant by "I visited your dreams."
So, I tried to contact him and manipulate him a bit with a cube. That we just 'have' to punish Honey, as a matter of pride, so just stand back and let it happen, and everything will be over. --I thought it was worth a try.
Well, he goes all "Papa Bear" over me, and spends like ten minutes wasting oxygen about how Lethe is his responsibility, how glad I should be that he was blackmailing me instead of just telling people my secrets, and equating me with Patches for the crime of... sitting there, I guess.
[sighs]
He did let slip something interesting: apparently Honey's collar turned into a belled one on its own. As in: he didn't make a choice to actually stop being a weed. I have no way of knowing if that's true, since this talk was via cube, but it's interesting if it is true. --But, it doesn't matter. He's still betrayed us by blabbing all of our secrets and trying to blackmail you.
In the end, the shepherd draws a line in the sand and I decide I've done all I can. "I won't try to get revenge on Lethe." --I'm one hundred percent sure he lost the meaning that promise would lead to someone else wanting the job.
[pause]
...Okay, I may have triggered things. I went and ordered a drink of "betrayal." I just wanted to freak him out a bit. Remind Honey that he's a coward.
What I got back was a glass with a whole lot of words written on it that showed the Shepherd knew some very intimate personal details about the worst moments of my life. I guess that's what he meant by "I visited your dreams."
So, I tried to contact him and manipulate him a bit with a cube. That we just 'have' to punish Honey, as a matter of pride, so just stand back and let it happen, and everything will be over. --I thought it was worth a try.
Well, he goes all "Papa Bear" over me, and spends like ten minutes wasting oxygen about how Lethe is his responsibility, how glad I should be that he was blackmailing me instead of just telling people my secrets, and equating me with Patches for the crime of... sitting there, I guess.
[sighs]
He did let slip something interesting: apparently Honey's collar turned into a belled one on its own. As in: he didn't make a choice to actually stop being a weed. I have no way of knowing if that's true, since this talk was via cube, but it's interesting if it is true. --But, it doesn't matter. He's still betrayed us by blabbing all of our secrets and trying to blackmail you.
In the end, the shepherd draws a line in the sand and I decide I've done all I can. "I won't try to get revenge on Lethe." --I'm one hundred percent sure he lost the meaning that promise would lead to someone else wanting the job.
[ She stopped listening after "I may have triggered things," just pinching at the bridge of her nose.
After a moment, she speaks, keeping her voice measured. ]
There are five other flocks. Four others, since I know you have a soft spot for Thistle. Perhaps turn your focus to them. Clover seems interesting.
After a moment, she speaks, keeping her voice measured. ]
There are five other flocks. Four others, since I know you have a soft spot for Thistle. Perhaps turn your focus to them. Clover seems interesting.
You should be apologizing to the Snake. I'm furious about the traitor as well, but our fixation has distracted from our general mission.
Hey! Mr. Sss Sss thinks I'm doing a great job. Or at least I haven't heard any complaints that I need to refocus my attention. He's given me a few rewards.
I'm trying to give the Snake a friendly face. We're not going to get anywhere if they're always united in their hatred of him, and us.
--I've got a fact that should do just that. The best part is, it's probably true.
I'm trying to give the Snake a friendly face. We're not going to get anywhere if they're always united in their hatred of him, and us.
--I've got a fact that should do just that. The best part is, it's probably true.
The reason they all hate the Snake is because he lied to them, killed some of them, stole power from Death, and got them all tortured for a while. The only people who don't know about it are the newbies who show up after. And... let's be honest. That includes us. I had to learn it from the bells, too. Mr. Sss Sss wasn't about to tell any of us the details of that either.
But, there's a detail I think everyone has missed: when the Snake first bound Death, it made a bunch of lost souls Death was carrying get set free. Some of them even vanished into nothing.
...So...
Where did those souls come from?
The Snake said he honestly didn't know. In fact, some of them may be from rituals Blossom botched, or souls that 'didn't make it' here to the pasture when she summoned the bells that are here now.
If the Snake is right... then Blossom is objectively the real evil, no matter what the Snake has done. She's either bringing people here over and over to die, or killed off a lot of other people who were here to start with.
The problem will be convincing anyone that.
But, there's a detail I think everyone has missed: when the Snake first bound Death, it made a bunch of lost souls Death was carrying get set free. Some of them even vanished into nothing.
...So...
Where did those souls come from?
The Snake said he honestly didn't know. In fact, some of them may be from rituals Blossom botched, or souls that 'didn't make it' here to the pasture when she summoned the bells that are here now.
If the Snake is right... then Blossom is objectively the real evil, no matter what the Snake has done. She's either bringing people here over and over to die, or killed off a lot of other people who were here to start with.
The problem will be convincing anyone that.
. . . Hmm. Fascinating. Truth be told, I had heard about that, but I hadn't considered that little fact.
I don't think anyone has. The memories are too visceral for the bells to be objective. I guess the Snake himself didn't think about it either.
--Good thing I did.
--Good thing I did.
[ She started drinking wine the moment Monika contacted her ftr. ]
Mm. Perhaps more information on Blossom is needed.
Mm. Perhaps more information on Blossom is needed.
Well, we're probably not going to get it from the sheep herself. Maybe Red...? He has said he deals in information as well as physical things.
But one thing's for sure. Whether they stay bells or not, getting people to shift their animosity toward her is for the best. Too many of them think they'll just ignore her until she does something weird.
But one thing's for sure. Whether they stay bells or not, getting people to shift their animosity toward her is for the best. Too many of them think they'll just ignore her until she does something weird.
Thanks for listening.
[Monika affection+1]
Between prison-bomber and Patches, I feel like you, me and Ogre are the only ones organized.
[Monika affection+1]
Between prison-bomber and Patches, I feel like you, me and Ogre are the only ones organized.
I feel it's quite suitable for the three of us.
Page 3 of 25