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Date: March 9, 2003(?)
Status: Public - Complete
Setting: Manor grounds
Summary: Loki starts to practise.



The bar was getting boring. There were no customers there at the moment and the amusing barkeeper had apparently quit. A sulky waiter from the restaurant was filling in for him running between the bar and the restaurant all the time and aside from getting tripped by a well placed foot from time to time not providing any entertainment. Loki needed something else to do.

He'd spent most of the morning reading up on sphinxes and angels in his attic hideout, so maybe it was time to get some exercise. He had promised the Sphinx to hone his shape shifting skills after all.

For this first attempt after his long illness he'd take a familiar and easy shape he decided. Besides the lawn looked like it had practically been made for a horse to run and graze on. The still falling rain had turned the ground muddy and inviting for a quick roll. He'd just have to remember to get back inside once the water got through his think horse fur or he might catch a cold.

So Loki walked out the door into the rain humming happily.

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Belial fished a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it, watching a beetle make a vain attempt to ford the small river that had formed in the gap between two paving stones.

He bent and caught the tiny creature as it was nearly swept away, and held it up gingerly between two fingers. The beetle's legs windmilled wildly for a moment, then slowed to the pace of a crawl in midair.

Belial had forgotten how dense the population of living creatures was on Earth

A larger shape in the gloom caught his interest, and it had the feel of the supernatural, so Belial sat the beetle down on the other side of the rivulet and strode out into the rainstorm to investigate.

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"Sadly, my lot in life is not for me to decide," Belial said.

He tapped the filter end of his cigarette against his lips. "If you could fell a thousand men by convincing one man that he wants something, without risk, is that not just another method of combat? Skill is required for both. Discrediting one in favor of the other is foolish. They're means to an end."