added snippets for The second War in heaven cycle

Author: formula-spectre

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         <li><a href="#halflings">Notes about halflings</a> </li>
         <li><a href="#herutiano">Herutiano's backstory in a nutshell</a> </li>
         <li><a href="#lovecraft">a small story, a tribute to HP Lovecraft</a> </li>
+        <li><a href="#Kuroto"> some snippets for the second War of the god story</a></li>
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     </li>
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 the artifical god of artificial life.
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+<h2 id="Kuroto">Some Snippets of Kuroto before he came Herutiano</h2>
+treat these as demos; there are random snippets that I write down from time to time (read: when my adhd feels nice), that will eventually be included in the second war of the gods arc.
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+kuroto and Daniel were circling against eachother.
+the crowd that formed around them made an almost perfect circle, creating an arena of some sort.
+"It's payback time computer guy" Daniel said, with a grin on it's face
+"We're out of school, this means that both of us can harm the other one without consequences. You know that right?"
+"Of course I do. when I heard that you would've come here I did not hesitate. This is payback for last time"
+"Last time?"
+"yes, when you defended that moth abomination."
+"oh, Helen. You had no right to pick on her, expecially since you too are a freak".
+Daniel was brandishing a spiked club, while Kuroto had no apparent weapon.
+But inside him, electricity was building, along with rage.
+it was not rage against Daniel, just an emotion caused by the feeling of doign harm: it was just a byproduct of harming Daniel and letting out some steam.
+but outside kuroto did not show any of that. his face was the always calm, almost annoyed or tired one.
+"This is not going to end well for you." Daniel said, leveling his club to Kuroto.
+Kuroto did not react to the insult, He just stopped walking in the circle. Ready to fight.
+Daniel sprung forward, already tasting and seeing the face of Kuroto broken and mangled by his club.
+Kuroto was swift. He ducked, lunched himself forward, into the foe; He parried the club with his left bare hand, twisted it, then used his right hand to punch the wrist of Daniel; these two actions, done at the exact same time, with almost chiurgical precision, made sure that the grip on the wepon loosen, and that was all Kuroto needed.
+He grabbed the wrist, and jerked down his entire arm with enough force to make the club slip from the hand of the owner. he kicked it away, and with the wrist still held tight, he pulled the foe to himself;
+he jerked his arm up, and then back down, making the elbow joint ecounter his thrusting upward knee. the arm bended, but wrongly, on the other side.
+the elbow joint broke.
+Kuroto did not miss a beat; he jumped, describing an arc, landing on the other side of Daniel, twisting his wrist in the process.
+he bended his arm on the wrong side, pulling it on Daniel's back.
+finally, he let go of the wrist, backing away.
+Daniel screamed in pain, as his fractured elbow was udner stress due the final position his arm was in.
+with his trembling good arm he tried to undo the positino and get the arm in a neutral position. the fractured joint still hurt, but this mitigated the pain some.
+Kuroto watched him, without flinching. he did not say anything, nor looked up to watch the crowd.
+more violence was building in him, but with an exhale, he let it go.
+"YOU BASTARD" Daniel composed himself and tried to punch kuroto straight into the jaw, like he did at school.
+in a flash, the violence in Kuroto surged again: He had a brief vision, that lasted not even a second, of that black monolith; He blocked the fist, then with a swift motion he jerked away Danie's arm, to then sprin around on his heel; using his bioelectricity he gained strenght, so much as to lift kuroto, as a child would lift a doll, to then topple him on the ground with violence, probably fracturing his backspine.
+for good measure, he twisted the wrist and broke it.
+"had enough? I have places to be." said Kuroto finally.
+"You... bastard" Daniel was squirming in pain. his elbow, his wrists, his back, everything hurts.
+"You're lucky that we didn't drew blood. it would've gotten messy fast."
+"You.. you are.. dead" kuroto spat some blood and saliva. he was foaming, but the sheer pain of his broken joints paralized him.
+"maybe." said kuroto, slowly walking away.
+"but if I die i will take you with me."
+the crowd who was shouting when Daniel first charged Kuroto, now was silent at the turn of events.
+Kuroto did not even use his electricity to inflict more pain to Daniel.
+He made a mental note of that.
+next time he would use double.
+"as a pay back" he tought, as he returned to where he was sitting.
+"What the hell happened here?" the orator master came to the scene.
+"What did you two do!?" was his exclamation when he saw Daniel getting helped on his feet.
+"he attacked me. I defended myself." was the only thing Kuroto said.
+"you broke his elbow!" roared the master
+"and his wrists."
+"do you!.. do you even have an idea.." the orator master was so furious that he could not find the proper words.
+Kuroto did not answer. Matter of fact he didn't even looked at him. he was focusing on the green landscape of the playing field, waiting for the hour to pass so he could go home.
+"you, come with me!" The master orator grabbed kuroto's hand.
+"where?"
+"we will have a long talk about what happened." said the man, composing himself.
+"i'm not in the mood to talk."
+"I don't care, you're in big trouble. The custodians will teach you a lesson."
+"custodians? does this mean that the High Priestess will be there?"
+"psh, of course!.. if she's not busy. she will suringly punish your bad behaviour!"
+Kuroto Jerked away the grip of the man, but still followed him.
+
+"Look, I know that you did that in self-defense."
+the master orator and Kuroto where sitting in a small grey room, with a window over the playfield. he was way calmer than before, almost as if the anger he showed in public was just for show.
+"do you know daniel?"
+"you said the High Priestess would meet me."
+"..."
+silence fell.
+"Do you know Daniel?"
+Kuroto did not answer, but instead, looked at the orator straight into his eyes
+"..I see now. you followed me just because you wanted to meet the High Priestess.."
+Kuroto's expression did not change.
+"I'll bring you to her, but first, answer my question."
+"I know who daniel is. he is friend with Konah, which is the son of the head of the organized crime in this city. he will surely tell him of today, and Konah will mark me as an enemy, and he will use his father's lackeys to do me harm."
+The orator was robbed of his thoughts.
+"He already tried to do that to my mother. I sent him a message."
+the man was now puzzled.
+"they came asking my mother for the "protection" fee."
+he was beginning to connect the pieces.
+"dear winged one.. so you were behind that.."
+"yes. I told them, to tell him, that he can target me all he wants, but he even dares to touch my mother or her activity.. well.."
+he trailed off, letting the implication sink in the man's mind.
+"you're putting yourself in great risks young man.." he finally said.
+"I don't particulary care to be honest."
+silence fell again, this time it felt heavy for the orator.
+he heard that Kuroto was pretty weird, but this?
+"now." started Kuroto, breaking his train of thoughts.
+"yes, you want to see the High Priestess.. I don't actually-"
+"and you will see me." a voice surpised both.
+Rikka, the High Priestess, was standing on the entrance of the room.
+"High Priestess! it's-" the man rose up like a spring, but was interrupted.
+"no need Calan, sit down."
+Kuroto was staring at her.
+"So, Kuroto, why did you want to see me?"
+"..." Kuroto did not say anything.
+for the first time, the orator saw kuroto's expression change: it was almost imperceptible, but some mixture of happyness and fluster blinked on his face, for not even a fraction for a second.
+did he imagined that? Kuroto was well known for having one expression: a tired one, the face of a sleepless man. it was not an evil expression, neither sad or angry, it was just.. his expression.
+"High Priestess.." Kuroto said after some silence, in a low tone, bordering to a whisper.
+"Yes?"
+He stood up, and slowly walked to the woman.
+they looked at eachother in the eye for what seemed like an eternity, then kuroto looked down.
+"I think this belongs to you."
+He held a silver ring, with a blue stone in it.
+the High Priestess looked at it, her expression was surpised. she gently took it from Kuroto's palm.
+"why thank you! this ring is very important to me!"
+"I figured, the gem is pure zapphire cut by the master dwarf Unglin.."
+"My most sincere gratitudes Kuroto!" she smiled. her smile, so warm and gentle, almost like a caring mother's.
+"Where and how did you find it?"
+"I found it on the ground near the entrace to the church.. I think it might have slippen off your finger when the cerimony of Blessing was over.."
+"I'm quite sure that is when it happened. I should ask master Unglin to tighten it a bit.. my most sencere gratitude Kuroto, i would've been very sad if I lost this ring."
+Kuroto was silent, his pallid cheek with a hind of flustering, looking at his side.
+The High Priestess lifted her hand, and rested it over Kuroto's hair. She gently caressed his brown hairs.
+"Good boy" she said, with the same warm smile.
+Kuroto this time did flinch. Almost like he was caught off guard by that act.
+He stepped back.
+The woman was surprised at his reaction, but at the same time, she somewhat expected it.
+Kuroto stood immobile for a few seconds, before making for the exit of the room.
+"Kuroto.." The High Priestess tried to stop him with words.
+He indeed stopped, but did not turn around.
+"Next time.. can you please not do that? it was very hard to heal those two men.. and now they're blinded for life since your electricity melted their eyes.."
+"...It was a message."
+"and the message was?"
+"stay away from my mother."
+"that's noble of you, but.. don't you think it was a bit too extreme? playing with someone else's life?"
+the tone of the High Priestess was not accusatory, nor angry or disappointed, her was the tone of a mother who tried to understand his son.
+"for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." he said coldly.
+the high orator felt like a freezing cold blade go through his heart.
+"I..see.." said the High Priestess.
+She tried to once again cares Kuroto's Head, but as she stepped forward, so did he.
+"..next time, try to not gain the attention of the Custodians, okay?"
+"..." Kuroto left the room.
+"..so you know it was him?" said the orator to the woman, who was putting back the ring on her finger.
+"yes. inside his eyes I saw violence and anger. the sheer brutality that afflicted those men and the fact that they had burn marks all over them, and their eyes literally exploded, made me think that Kuroto was the one behind their sorry state."
+"He knows that he's basically putting himself against the entire mafia of Katmin, but-"
+"he'd rather paint the target on his back than let his mother succumb to them."
+"..exactly. And while that's noble, I am worried for him."
+"so am I. but he's a fighter. if the Divinatorium Sphere is correct, and after today, I am sure it is, he can bring go toe-to-toe against the army of Katmin, and even Katmin himself, and still rise on the top. yet.."
+"yet?"
+"...with great power cometh great responsabilities.."
+"what are you implying my lady?"
+"..."
+She paused for a second, trying to put togheter a sentence that described one of the visions of the Divinatorium chamber.
+"...Nothing." she gave up. What she saw.. no. it was not a future that will not manifest. not under her watch, so she didn't even try to empower that future by explaining what she saw.
+She exited the room, with her usual grace, and two Custodiands excorted her to her room.
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