Chapter 18
A follow up from the last drabble.
Joining Excalibur was more a necessity than anything else. The Xmen were claimed as dead by the public- some celebrate, some weep- survivors such as Kitty Pryde, Kurt Wagner and the New Mutants are scatter around. Kitty supposes this would be one of her darkest moments. Hard to be when SHE told me about the big spoiler. The Xmen will come back...they aren't dead just lost in a different dimension.
Kitty, in her room, rememebrs the words coming from such high power. What I feel about it? They are alive but they won't come to us right away...they are hiding, well, they will hide first.
"Thinking about the possibilities again?" Zaorva asked in such song song way. She has such fairy looking mask. It wouldn't blend in at the mansion but Zaorva is not here to blend in.
"Yes, can't help to think about it..." Kitty answers as she lays her head on the pillow. Zaorva is studying her or maybe she is just looking. We are ants for them.
"Have you consider....having a dog?" Zaorva asked and Kitty has still something inside of her to give a dead stare to the emboiment of life. "I mean, Lockheed is in space and won't return for some time...a dog would help"
"Maybe, but no one can replace Lockheed. Plus. I like cats more" Kitty answers looking at the ceiling.
"Oh. I can help with this" and before Kitty could ask what Zaorva meant a cat is placed in the bed. A furry feline the size of Kitty's shoe and with blueish eyes. Innocent as one can imagine.
"I thought you only liked dogs" Kitty asks shocked ans tentatively touches the cat with the most respect one can muster. Zaorva rolls her eyes amused.
"I understand them better" Zaorva explained scratching the chin of the small feline. "But I like cats...and this lil missy here can be your companion until Lockheed returns. Deal?"
Maybe is the fluffy cat or maybe is the sleeping slowly but surely kicking in but Kitty says the words deal to an Outer God.
The cat seems pleased.
Kurt remembers how his adopted mother- for all faults and errors, she is still his mother more than Mystique- once talked about beings of great power. Of course, Kurt is catholic as well aware of the romani culture, but his memories of Margali telling stories of being of such power causing people to go mad by only staring at their shadows or trying to say their names...rings still in his mind.
It was just a tale. Margali once told about Zaorva....I thought it was just a tale. Someone who can create life without even needing to think is....
His mind supplent his thoughts with Jean Grey as Pheonix creating life and taking as she sees fit. He remembers of her sacrifice.
But Zaorva can create life. She is on a level above of Pheonix...which is scarier on its own.What else is more powerful than Pheonix?
Doug, once the whole Dark Pheonix'a saga ends and once the Xmen made the sacrifice almost forget that odf phrase. Kurt is the one who remembers and once seeing such phrase...feels his blood run cold.
"Katzchen was singing this? Are you sure?" Kurt asked hoping this is a jest. Hoping with his god that Doug made a mistake.
"Yes. She was humming this line at one point..." Doug would give more context but it is unecessary. Kurt didn't call Dr. Stranger, he teleport to his house in a bit.
The sorcer is shocked by that phrase. "Zaorvian...the old language. Few can say such idiom and fewer would sing such foolish" maybe the man didn't mean as an insult to Kitty. But he takes as such.
"She is far more smart than you give credit for. If she can even...say this line, she is not foolish" and Kurt remembers how she is not fond of magic. "She saw what happened to Ilyana Rasputin...why she would venture in magic?"
"Yes...but how she would have acess to such language?"
Kurt is drinking his coffee on his batman's mug. Sleeping is being difficult as worries of what to do with a team where team work is at lowest take a toll on him. He was drinking coffee until Kitty steps in with a fluffy white cat.
"Kurt, I want you to met a very special someone. This is Lady. She is a gift" Kitty holds the cat in a way so Kurt can see all if her glory. "Isn't she lovely? Like, no one will replace Lochkeed" she said the last part to the cat as if they are setting the detials of a contract. "But she will stay until Lochkeed returns"
Kurt smiles at Kitty and loves to see her happy. "I'm happy for you...Zaorva seems kind....Katzchen, you know this is flurgen, right?"
"Duh, saw the tentacles, but relax she is a well behave cat...she won't attack us...if we don't bother her"
"Katzchen....this made me like dogs more"