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Characters: Esther and Anubis
Date/Time: May 1st
Location: A room in L'Hotel de Jeu Ancien
Rating: TBD
Warnings: none so far
Summary: Esther and Anubis meet under unusual circumstances

Anubis started to stir a little in his sleep. He rolled over in bed, turning, but was stopped suddenly by something as his arm didn't move with the rest of him. It wad enough to wake him the rest of the way, his eyes popping open. Right away, he realized something wasn't right.

"What?" He tried to sit up and again felt something restricting his arm. He began to process several things at once. He was wearing what he'd worn to bed, a black t-shirt and boxer shorts, but that was the only thing that was familiar. He was in a strange room, looking like a cheap hotel suite. He had a cuff around his right wrist, he was chained... and he wasn't alone.

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"Abilities?" He cocked his head, curious at that mention. "But some of... us do?" It was an interesting thought. Kind of hard to believe, but then again they'd been spirited away to some mystery location, so maybe some of them having some kinds of special abilities wasn't too farfetched.

"I've heard a few mentions of immortal children. Are all our children immortals?"

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"Some of the godlings have very obvious abilities, depending on who they are," Esther explained, "I've always been a human, so I just have particular knacks for... certain things. I don't have superpowers or anything like that."

"As for the children... Well, some of the men in the group already have children from well before we all came together, and as far as I'm aware, those children are entirely mortal. But last year on the Winter Solstice, we had seven godling women all give birth on the same day, and all but one of those children were full gods. The exception was Erato's child--his father was demigod, so he remains mortal."

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"A knack for certain things?" He wondered at that and tried to remember what he knew of Esther. "I don't think I have much anything like that myself, unless not fitting in is a superpower." He laughed a little self-derisively.

"So there's new gods? For all the pantheons, or only some?"

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"Just for the ones who've had babies," Esther said, "So it's possible that there may yet be more down the line as other godlings start or add to their families."

She looked at him curiously.
"Oh, I'm sure you've got powers. You said you're Anubis, right? One of the gods. So, there must be something special you can do," she assured him. "Beats me out, in any case. The reason I became queen at all is because I happened to win a nationwide sex contest. And I managed to prevent genocide by persuading the man I was married to to allow certain things for the Jews--which probably succeeded at least in part due to my natural charms."

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The thought of being able to create new gods was a shocking one to Anubis. It was definitely enough to make him even more aware than ever of the benefits of safe sex.

"I am, yeah." She thought he must have powers? He thought on anything unusual, but at the moment couldn't think of much. Her description of herself made him grin for a moment. "Alright. And what do you do for a living again?"

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"I'm a lobbyist on Capitol Hill. Still using my charms to try and sway the lawmakers, as it were," she said.

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"How do you get a job like that?", Mason asked. That sounded interesting to him.

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"Get involved and work like a dog for it," Esther said. "I lost my parents very young, and it wasn't that I wasn't cared for by my foster family, but... I wanted more. So I got involved. Did a lot of volunteering. Had a good internship, and eventually made my way onto K Street and the Hill."