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[Mithos has had his hands full with his own elf. After the first one refused to leave him alone, showering him with incessant requests to bake cookies and make paper snowflakes, he thought killing it would be the quickest solution. Then a new elf popped up. It was destroyed and replaced again within the hour. This one was a little twitchy and bizarrely fixated on Mithos's hair - it kept insisting that he fashion holiday decorations from locks of it. At this point, he resorted to locking the elf in the closet, but it always seems to find a way out.

He's flinging the elf back into the closet for the hundredth time when he hears the loud yell from outside. He doesn't get a chance to shut the door on his strange little tormentor because he's turning to tensely listen. Someone is at his front door, and they shouldn't be. He stalks over, hand ready on Kaori's knife where it waits at his waist, and he carefully pulls the door open.

Surprise flashes across his face when he sees that it's Freyjadour, but it's quickly replaced by vexation.] What are you doing here?

[It takes Freyjadour a few moments to snatch the gleefully swinging elf, and that's more then enough time for Mithos to make it to the door to be greeted by the sight of Frey grasping about in an attempt to pry the tiny elf off his hair. It takes a few seconds more for him to actually catch it, and when he does the little guy simply lets go, leaving the pain in his scalp to fade to a dull ache.

Through all of this, he's still managed to hold onto the package and a small tin of cookies he'd baked recently alongside his efforts to make Christmas gifts for everyone in his house. It's only after the elf lets go that he realizes he has completely blown his cover, with a giggling elf now perched innocently on the front step of the house.] Ah...... Well.

[This doesn't look good, does it.]

[The blade remains tucked away, but his hand hasn't dropped from the knife as his glare shifts from Frey to the elf to the package and back again.] I knew you were still keeping tabs on me.

[Damn. He'd better try to salvage this.] Not exactly.

[It.... wasn't entirely a lie. They hadn't been making close visits like before, and it had mostly been watching from a distance--

.....He'd blown it. He'd have to tell Raine.]

Here. [And that's when Mithos gets the small package offered out towards him, the tin of cookies resting atop it. Maybe it'll distract him from the fact Frey wasn't suppose to be here.

Maybe.]

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[Nice try. His glare flicks down to the offered package briefly, confused, but then it's back on Frey. He doesn't move.]

Then why are you here? [To...give him something? But why?]

[Hey, he didn't plan on getting caught. But he's sure Mithos knows what a present is.]

It's called Christmas.

[He's still holding out the package.]

[Christmas... He remembers how last year he had been so enthralled by the holiday, seeing it through the eyes of a child. He did not know a lot about it, but it was a day for celebrating loved ones, for being close to others, and back then he had wanted nothing more than that.]

...I have no reason, nor any desire, to celebrate. [He tries to sound like a stone, cold and hard and solid, but on the inside he's hollow.]

I see.... It isn't a holiday that exists where I come from, but I have taken to celebrating it a little in Luceti. [He's still holding out the gift. He's well aware that Mithos is likely not to be eager to celebrate or even be involved in the holiday, especially with the absence of those he cared for.]

Are you still willing to accept a gift, at least?

[No. No, he doesn't want to accept any gift from Frey, he doesn't want to accept that Frey wants to help him, he doesn't want to--] Will you leave me alone if I take it?

I did not plan to be here long.... I didn't even plan to be seen. I just thought that no one should be completely alone on such a holiday.

[And a gift, even if he didn't know the recipient, would at least mean someone was thinking of him.]

[Completely alone... The words echo through the cavern around his heart, and the sharp ache is a familiar companion. A companion he hates as much as he hates anyone else in this world.] This day is no different from any other...and you being here makes me no less alone.

[But he stiffly takes the package from Frey's hands.]

[He didn't mean to make it sound as horrible as it did.... even if it was the truth. He knew Mithos wouldn't see the need to celebrate, but it still was difficult to see all the celebrations with family and friends and not feel some degree of yearning to see those you cared for that were not here once more.]

I suppose it does not....... but thank you for humoring me.

[This would be the part where he drops some acrid parting remark and shuts the door in Frey's face. Except before he can open his mouth, the small elf that has been pestering him for days comes frolicking over, having wriggled out of the closet where he was tossed. Its movements are lurching and demented, and there's really no reason that it shouldn't lose its balance. It cries out:] "Hey, cakesniffer! Why ain't you baking those cookies like I asked you to!"

[It skips underneath his legs to peer up at Frey; Mithos glares down at it.] How many times do I have to tell you? I don't care.

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[Frey raises an eyebrow slightly at the elf, wondering at it's odd demeanor. It seemed.... off. Just a little. The elf that had taken to following Frey gives a cheery wave to it's brethren from it's perch on the porch step.]

So there is one following you too, then? It seems like almost everyone in the village has been given requests by them.

[The elf gives an odd little wave to Frey's elf, wiggling his fingers. Mithos's eyes return to Frey, cool and hard.] Killing it did nothing. A new one appeared shortly after, and it was only more annoying than the last.

[As if suddenly remembering the brutality his charge is capable of, the elf slowly backs away. He cowers and twitches and looks like he's trying not to tremble.]

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You killed it?

[He looks just a little disappointed by that. Sure, it was probably some sort of shifted creature, but that didn't make it any less intelligent.]

What does it matter? [In a twisted way, he wants Frey to be angry with him, to incinerate his futile attempts at festivity.]

It's a bit extreme for something like this. You could have simply ignored it.

[Disappointed? Yes. Angry? No. Because now that he's heard it, he isn't as surprised as he knows he should be. Mithos taking out his annoyance and anger on things seemed to be a trend.

Perhaps that was worse, though.]

It wouldn't leave me alone. I refuse to listen to the endless and pointless demands of an elf, even if it's nothing like a real one. [If the stupid requests and sickening cheer hadn't already been enough, Mithos hated it from the instant the creature introduced itself as an elf.]

While I'll agree they seem nothing like the elves I've met, height most of all, it was still uncalled for. You could have requested it leave you alone, or simply avoided it.

Edited 2013-01-17 02:12 (UTC)

It doesn't listen. [He flicks the knife's blade out, still idle at his side.] At least this one doesn't follow me around like the first two. [And he flicks the blade shut again. A sharp glance over his shoulder tells him that the elf has pathetically retreated down the length of the entryway hall.]

You killed two?

[....And with that blade, he'd guess. He wasn't sure how to feel about that.]

Why are you so surprised?

I suppose I should not be..... but was there truly a need for you to do so?

I already told you--

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