Post by Virgo on May 21, 2007 19:54:01 GMT
Wondering what exactly had made her throw herself into this conversation, Virgo looked around at the other Goddesses. They were all so different from one another that it was going to be hard to cope with one another, and she didn’t doubt that they would end up squaring off with one another at one point. Even between two close friends, things like that happened, and between twelve of them, it was impossible for them not to go head-to-head, especially with what Virgo knew to be hormones running around their body. There was an age where girls stuck together and thought that boys smelt weird and had diseases, and then it got to a point where they begin seeing the attraction and started to move on and grow up at different speeds, and it could only end in disaster. Virgo had personally seen it happen with a few girls she knew from her previous life, and although she and her two best friends at the time had agreed they would never do that, her position as a Goddess changed everything.
“I didn’t ask for this,” Said Virgo, looking at Gemini, and ignoring the tears that were evident in her red-rimmed eyes. The sapphire-haired Goddess wasn’t prone to emotional outbursts, but when she did, they had a tendency to be followed or accompanied with shaking and almost tears, if tears had not already started rolling down her cheeks. “We didn’t ask for this. There are some of us that don’t want the position of importance – I hate it. I feel bad that I hate it because in some aspects, it’s been an enjoyable experience so far. There are so many books, books about things I could have only dreamed about and even then, there are still things I couldn’t have even imagined in my wildest fantasies. I feel like I’ve found a part of me that’s been missing for so long, and in the same aspect, I feel so bad about liking this place because I had to leave everybody behind – and I’m never going to see them again, not without lies and deception, and what would be the point, because they think I’m too good for them now, not good enough to be a normal girl back at home! And I couldn’t, because I’m recognisable for what I am – even if I managed to get rid of the sapphire colour in my hair, and manage to pass my eyes off as a dark shade of blue, what would be the point? I’ve got a stone in my wrist, that sparks pain into me every time I think about it, and powers that I can’t control – telepathy, and telekinesis, and I can vaguely move stones and dust about and grow weak flowers, and I’m dreaming things that haven’t happened yet! We’re freaks; we’re outcasts, and you can’t say that it’s our own fault we’re like this!”
She was shaking with anger and frustration when she stopped for breath. It wasn’t anger at any of the girls, although mild annoyance at Gemini’s easy defence of the priests, but instead at the priests, and the whole situation that the girls were in. They’d been dragged into this without an explanation at what was to come, and from what she could decipher from how much Sapphire had told her, and how much she could read of his expressions and body signals, there was little doubt as to why there had been a lack of information, mostly because, if she was right, something like this had only happened once before and it was a long, long time ago. Once she had calmed down a little, Virgo continued.
“I don’t think that we are the first Goddesses to have these powers,” Said the sapphire-coloured girl, continuing to avoid eye contact with the others by looking at the walls, or the floor, or the bookcases, or anything else that wasn’t a thirteen-year-old girl. “However, I think we are the first girls that have been brought into the Temple to have these powers. I think that we might have a connection to the original Goddesses – the very first Goddesses that, according to legend, were found in the wilderness and taken into the Temple, and raised by the priests. The very first Goddesses that disappeared for unknown reasons – and their deaths are debatable. I’ve heard people talk about it. The legend just stops – and it’s a legend. We have little proof to it.”
She stopped again, wondering how much she’d decide to tell them. It depended on their behaviour, she thought, deciding that if they weren’t going to stop and think for themselves, there wasn’t much reason in sharing her theories, at least not until she had more proof. And what little did she have, considering…
“The only proof that we have are our familiars and, until we figure out what we’re supposed to be doing, or making alliances with one another, or learning about our powers, they’re going to refuse to talk to us about it.”
“I didn’t ask for this,” Said Virgo, looking at Gemini, and ignoring the tears that were evident in her red-rimmed eyes. The sapphire-haired Goddess wasn’t prone to emotional outbursts, but when she did, they had a tendency to be followed or accompanied with shaking and almost tears, if tears had not already started rolling down her cheeks. “We didn’t ask for this. There are some of us that don’t want the position of importance – I hate it. I feel bad that I hate it because in some aspects, it’s been an enjoyable experience so far. There are so many books, books about things I could have only dreamed about and even then, there are still things I couldn’t have even imagined in my wildest fantasies. I feel like I’ve found a part of me that’s been missing for so long, and in the same aspect, I feel so bad about liking this place because I had to leave everybody behind – and I’m never going to see them again, not without lies and deception, and what would be the point, because they think I’m too good for them now, not good enough to be a normal girl back at home! And I couldn’t, because I’m recognisable for what I am – even if I managed to get rid of the sapphire colour in my hair, and manage to pass my eyes off as a dark shade of blue, what would be the point? I’ve got a stone in my wrist, that sparks pain into me every time I think about it, and powers that I can’t control – telepathy, and telekinesis, and I can vaguely move stones and dust about and grow weak flowers, and I’m dreaming things that haven’t happened yet! We’re freaks; we’re outcasts, and you can’t say that it’s our own fault we’re like this!”
She was shaking with anger and frustration when she stopped for breath. It wasn’t anger at any of the girls, although mild annoyance at Gemini’s easy defence of the priests, but instead at the priests, and the whole situation that the girls were in. They’d been dragged into this without an explanation at what was to come, and from what she could decipher from how much Sapphire had told her, and how much she could read of his expressions and body signals, there was little doubt as to why there had been a lack of information, mostly because, if she was right, something like this had only happened once before and it was a long, long time ago. Once she had calmed down a little, Virgo continued.
“I don’t think that we are the first Goddesses to have these powers,” Said the sapphire-coloured girl, continuing to avoid eye contact with the others by looking at the walls, or the floor, or the bookcases, or anything else that wasn’t a thirteen-year-old girl. “However, I think we are the first girls that have been brought into the Temple to have these powers. I think that we might have a connection to the original Goddesses – the very first Goddesses that, according to legend, were found in the wilderness and taken into the Temple, and raised by the priests. The very first Goddesses that disappeared for unknown reasons – and their deaths are debatable. I’ve heard people talk about it. The legend just stops – and it’s a legend. We have little proof to it.”
She stopped again, wondering how much she’d decide to tell them. It depended on their behaviour, she thought, deciding that if they weren’t going to stop and think for themselves, there wasn’t much reason in sharing her theories, at least not until she had more proof. And what little did she have, considering…
“The only proof that we have are our familiars and, until we figure out what we’re supposed to be doing, or making alliances with one another, or learning about our powers, they’re going to refuse to talk to us about it.”