Topic: Time doesn't care about anyone or anything

Against Descent

Date: 2014-10-12 12:42 EST
This is stupid, and I wonder why I am doing it. Though, I suppose I haven't many a confidant left, and so the paper shall have to do. It has in the past, after all.

I suppose I'll start with a bright note, then, since there aren't many to relate, this Autumn. I saw Cooper Gallows recently. It's good to see him around--though his condition, it seems, is hell. I'll have to see if I can do something about that. I've invited him over to my house, and he's already accepted once. It's a good thing, as I said.

And now...

My brother is an idiot. Salvador, this time, though gods know Mesteno has probably had his moments. If he has, well, he's handled them and gone. Meanwhile, Sal flails around like a blind man who has lost his cane.

Probably a more meaningful metaphor than I had intended, here, but I suppose it works.

He has his lovers, and he always has had them. It was one of the many things that probably caused a rift between a few friends and I in the past--Morgan Knight, for example, always did look down his long Akashic nose at Sal--but I maintain that Morgan never understood him either. So few people do. So many judge Sal by how humans are judged, and I just want to kick them, or slap them. Some way to grab their attention, and just...show them the way, I suppose.

Not that Salvador in and of himself is innocent in all this. I do remember Sal picking on Morgan, because he enjoyed it. He is an ass. (Which, of course, is not to say Morgan didn't bring it on himself, either...)

But I speak of the past, when I should speak of the present.

I felt Faye calling me. It seemed, then, that we were going to have an intervention with one of Sal's lovers--Rei, a boy I had only met once before. I suppose I do him a disservice, calling him a boy--he is caught, transfixed so, in that horrible point between child and adult, one that every being struggles with. And struggle, he does. And my brother, of course, has not helped.

Rei wanted Salvador to be his only, his great beloved--and Sal, has already found his, did so long ago. Sinjin Fai. And even Sin was called by my mother, that day. To try to speak with Rei. To try to make him understand.

I will not go more deeply into the discussion than I have--Rei's secrets are his own and deserve to be so--but I asked him, was it really worth it to piss on his own campfire, because he was jealous of a bonfire a mile away?

I'd hoped to make him think, but I've heard since that they are no more.

Rei has to make his own way, I understand. I cannot help, however, but be disappointed. Disappointed in the both of them.

Last night, it was Salvador that I hunted--I wanted to try and smack some sense into him. I do not know what I wanted to do. Still. I did find him, after working out some of my own frustrations at the FUNDERDOME. I did not win that fight, but it was good nonetheless. And then, there he was.

He is not taking care of himself. And this is one of many reasons why I say: my brother is an idiot.

I did slap him upside the head. I do not regret it.

But then, I practically ordered him to hunt with me. At least he listened.

That much, I can attempt to fix.

Against Descent

Date: 2014-10-24 12:25 EST
Salvador hugged me last night.

I don't know what to make of this.

Autumn rides us hard, my siblings and I. I'm not sure what Mesteno does to handle it--I, I make my Tradition brothers and sisters worry about me. with the sheer numbers I return to the Wheel. They already worry about my Tear, but I have told them the truth. I have been adopted by a very powerful Entropy spirit and am a sometimes-guardian to Her offspring. Whether they believe it or not, is up to them. I will not round up Salvador to be stared at by them. As if they have not looked at me askance before, when I showed up with a Murder-spirit on my shoulder.

Salvador runs wild. He always has, though, from the moment I met him. Oh, Sheridan Driscol and his father made the attempt to tame him, but I do not know if he can be tamed. Taught, yes. When he feels like it. Which isn't incredibly often, but if he looked his actual age, that would be no surprise.

Save he doesn't.

And yet, he hugged me. Maybe he's learning. I don't want to talk to him about it, or call him on it. That is the quickest way to nip that in the bud--I know him well enough for that.

So, I change the subject.

Sabine has moved into my house. That isn't a problem. I'm not sure I like her bringing all sorts of people to my house, but...I plan to talk to her about it. I am very choosy about who I allow in my domain; but she's young, and I know she means absolutely no harm by it. It's just her exploring her boundaries, and taking the opportunity to be young. She needs it. I don't want to quash that either.

That said, I may just give her her own place for that sort of thing. An apartment, a cleaning service. If she'll accept it, because gods know she's a stubborn little thing. But who and what else have I got to spend money on?

I haven't seen Cooper. I'm worried.