#moonheiir

The white ball of fluff turns bright, blue, slitted eyes towards the meal presented to him. This time, the Princess of the Underworld has gone with something truly delicious. The fix is unknown, perhaps something from the realm of Chaos Themselves, given the texture. How Lu Guang can find it similar to a void is both fitting and rather impossible were he not specifically in the form of a cat.

It's arranged lovingly with some sort of Ambrosia-based sauce, along with leafy greens, slices of golden apple, and minced garlic. Topped off, of course, with a sprig of mistletoe.

The purring starts before Lu Guang realises it. He leans down. A tongue flicks out to catch some apple laced with such a finely glazed sauce, and a satisfied meow spills from him.

There are times where Arashi grows bored enough to wander to the furthest reaches of the Fields of Mourning where sometimes Cerberus is eager to play or is simply napping. Both options are fun whether or not he's been consumed by the shades of despair, though the shades themselves still set Arashi on edge. He wants to shoo them away—sometimes, they try to latch onto Arashi, but there's nothing there to latch onto—but they just drift back to Cerberus, cloying and awful.

So Arashi keeps coming back when he can to try wrest the little parasites off, but this time Cerberus flops a massive paw on him as if to say to leave it be then rests the middle head atop Arashi, and essentially Arashi is stuck under Cerberus for an embarrassingly long amount of time—if he even can feel embarrassment—until Cerberus wakes again.

Which, apparently, doesn't happen for a while. Even when Melinoë happens upon the scene, panting from whatever combat she's just been through, and brimming with absolute power.

Arashi tries to wave at her, but his arms are also pinned under the snoozing Cerberus, and so he settles with a forlorn look. "I know right?" he whines out, more-so referring to the fact that he's stuck—completely oblivious to the real reason to her words—and tries to slip out from the weight to no avail. "I'm so bored but I also don't wanna wake him. Last time I woke him up, he kept trying to make me give him ear scratches for at least a day straight!"

░░ MELINOE ( @moonheiir ) to THANATOS: ░░ → ✉  ‘ the best defense is more offense. ’ or so zagreus told her…

⥂ ░░░  𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗦 𝗛𝗜𝗠  is long and suffering, but fondness softens it at the edge, as always, without his explicit consent. to his credit, thanatos does manage to at least keep the smile from his lips, for where he fails with his eyes.

     “    i've no doubt you were told exactly that,    ”   he mutters, choosing then to have the emphasis for his following point precede his words as he disarms the young princess in one swift move.      “    what you were not told, is that such an approach will not work on opponents that are faster, larger, or more durable than you, or that are accustomed to it ⸺ such as those that have watched it in action for decades, centuries, even.    ”   

The indignant meow that spills from him is all but ignored it seems despite the heat behind the noise. She hasn't done quite enough to earn so many kisses in one go, and he hates the idea that he actually kind of likes this attention, especially showing that he does at all.

His feline head rears back, slitted eyes narrowing, fangs baring in a hiss. Ears flattening, he has half a mind to nip at her hand in warning, but when the kisses keep coming... well.

"Oh."

The response is perhaps a bit lackluster compared to what Melinoë expects, but Arashi's at a loss for words. He floats a tad closer to her, head tilting in uncertainty before he decides to descend to the ground, wings tucking up against his back, feet touching the ground.

" Now, now, I wonder who would be so curious to know my relationship with Melinoë with my own words... " Quiet she becomes, perhaps in thought ( or feigning to be ) as she lets them wait in suspense.

" She is my pupil, & I, her teacher. She could not have been any better of a student than she was under my tutelage. Though she may have her moments of self-doubt, she is still persistent to see through her goals to completion. I have no hesitation in entrusting any task I see fit to her. "

" However, I must mention she tends to become rather attached when I have told her repeatedly we are merely teacher & student. I may have raised her, but that motherhood role should not be so easily given away when her true mother was held in the grasp of the wretched titan. If only she had spent her time with her than with me for a war she never asked to partake in. "

A tilt of that sweet, fluffy cat head. He's watching her with wide, blue eyes. This is a new person, one that Chronos has spoken of.