Pagan Gods: Of Brotherhood and War

05:50 Argoniya: *stretches*
05:51 minotaur21560: *looks up
05:52 Argoniya: Ooooh?
05:52 Argoniya: You must be the Minotaur everyone was talking of...
05:53 minotaur21560: *Stands, still naked but for helmet and the double red cord around my balls, salutes with arm across chest, "Yes, a general for the forces of the woods. And tell me who are you?"
05:55 Argoniya: “Oh, I am Argoniya, the darkest of the darkest, the fire that consumes all it sees.”
05:56 minotaur21560: "The name is not unfamiliar from tales I heard in the Bear Court."
05:58 Argoniya: “Bear Court? And what is this, Bear Court you speaks of?”
06:00 minotaur21560: "The Court of Garras the Bear. I am his Bear Warrior as well as serving Bjarg of the Woods. No doubt you know them both...""
06:01 Argoniya: “So Garras has indeed taken the side of Bjarg..... Yes, I know them both...”
06:02 Argoniya: “What does he do for the side of Bjarg?”
06:04 minotaur21560: "He would have some elegant thing to say about there being no sides, and lately everything he says in rhymes, but i can only say that he often takes naps here with his arms dangling from a branch, and on festival days has been known to raise his forelegs and backlegs in sylvan dance."
06:06 Argoniya: “I should have guessed. So he is not helping Bjarg... By Gods, I cannot predict nor read the mind of that bear.”
06:08 Argoniya: “But what has tempted Bjarg to enlist him anyway?”
06:09 minotaur21560: Even Bjarg likes to muddy the waters about light and dark being inseparable... though it seems he still has enemies to fight. But he and the bear go back a long way, probably through eons.
06:11 Argoniya: “Indeed. Where there is light, there must be shadows... So they do go back a long way then...”
06:13 Argoniya: “I hope he still does not intervene in our future fights... Otherwise, my end would be imminent.”
06:15 minotaur21560: "Who is your opponent then, Lord of the Underworld?"
06:16 Argoniya: “For now, no one. None living dares to even walk close to me, and none dead dares to disturb me. But, as things are must by fate, I am deemed to face against Bjarg and Dahvin someday...”
06:17 Argoniya: “Of course, Garras was the exception... I was blinded the first time I laid my eyes upon that bear...”
06:17 Argoniya: “....Because his fists have made my eye holes swollen to the point of blocking my vision.”
06:19 minotaur21560: "But your dark eyeless holes still seek out the dark and can see what is dark...."
06:20 Argoniya: “Though my eyes are burnt from the hellish fires, it still seeks out the dark. I am blind, yet my eyesights see through the dark.”
06:22 Argoniya: “And though for now, I am satisfied with the Underworld, greed will soon blind my burnt-out eyes, and make me do horrendous acts.”
06:23 minotaur21560: "Greed is an appetite common to all. And there are those who judge me as dark, Bjarg for instance. But what do you see when you look at me?"
06:25 Argoniya: “When I look at you? Well...” *Taps chin for a moment while glaring at the General.* “I only see a poor soul, entangled in his fate without his will or a chance of having a say about it.”
06:27 minotaur21560: The bull general notices similar phrases to blandishments in political texts that encourage insurrection...
06:29 Argoniya: “Have you ever had a chance to say no to your supposed fate, general?” The hellish beast would soon make his way to his back, laying his hands on the general’s shoulders.
06:29 minotaur21560: *notices the smell of brimstone, and a sense of burning at the touch of the creature's hand.
06:30 minotaur21560: "The question is a paradox... but it is the duty of a general to follow orders."
06:32 Argoniya: “Ah, but must you follow orders from superior beings? Don't you wish to be the one to issue the orders for once?”
06:33 Argoniya: “After all, aren't you tired of only listening to the orders... And for what? For glory? For honor?”
06:36 minotaur21560: *juts out chest* "I try to be an honorable man... but yes there are times when I chafe... under an order that seems ill-advised..."
06:38 Argoniya: *places a wicked grin on my face as I whisper into his ears...* “See? Even the Savior of the forest makes ill-advised orders... You could have given a better order... Perhaps you could have if you were your own supreme being... No one to give you orders, but plenty to give orders to...”
06:39 minotaur21560: *listens to this, cock twitching, begins to feel uncomfortable
06:40 Argoniya: “Well, General?”
06:41 minotaur21560: "there are things... afoot... I can feel it. You can feel it. Even he can feel it. But it is my duty... this forest, we must not let it be tarnished. It is too precious..."
06:45 Argoniya: “Yes, I suppose... I suppose this forest is so precious and that we all are lucky to have it... But you will have to make a decision one day... To keep following orders, or to issue them...”
06:49 minotaur21560: *nods, feeling the return of balance and equilibrium
06:51 Argoniya: “Well then... Perhaps until then, we will bath ourselves in the honey meads.”
06:55 minotaur21560: "yes, that is good. Shall I get you some?"
06:55 Argoniya: “Why, yes, thank you!”
06:57 minotaur21560: *walks behind the trees to a wicker basket of supplies, then returns with a long curving horn of an obviously extinct animal, full of honey mead, and presents with some ceremony to the guest.
06:59 Argoniya: *the hellish beast would take the long curving horn gratefully, with his hands clapping to applaud the ceremony before taking a sip of the honey mead.* “Marvelous... Just marvelous.”

Published: 2021-11-12, viewed 38 times.