The permanence of something doesn't actually have anything to do with it's meaning. As lasting or transient as they may be, a great deal of human existence is spent invested in navigating social structures. To us, they are very meaningful.
All angels know what things taste like. It's not the same as tasting them with a vessel.
There was a plant, millions of years before humans were created, that had white and pink berries the size of your hand. The taste of it was indescribable; I could say it's like melon and banana and raspberry jam, but it wasn't. Not really.
I used to sit under the leaves and watch the fruit grow. But I wonder now what it would have been like to truly taste one.
[It shouldn't come as any surprise to learn that Lucifer is a perfectionist, in the strictest sense of the word. But he also knows he paid more attention to the plants back then than his brothers did; it wouldn't help to ask their opinions.
He sighs, and as he exhales a deep green leaf big enough to cover both their laps appears. In its center, growing up from a pale green stem, is a white berry the size of Break's fist.]
[He breaks it in half with a twist, smiling as the juice slides down his fingers, and offers one of the pieces to Lucifer, before taking a bite of his own.]
[His first thought is a sort of mash up of incoherent pleasure. His second is that he needn't have worried, it's the plant. An exact version of it, plucked from Creation and not his memory.]
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Date: 2011-08-15 09:44 am (UTC)Enlighten me. Which structures do you promote?
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Date: 2011-08-15 09:45 am (UTC)But I do inhabit them.
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Date: 2011-08-15 09:59 am (UTC)But peanut butter helps. [He's speaking from experience now.]
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Date: 2011-08-15 10:03 am (UTC)What is the first thing you ever remember eating? Can you remember? Do human minds... [gesturing vaguely] allow it?
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Date: 2011-08-15 05:23 pm (UTC)I remember being given sweet corn, right off the cob, at a city festival.
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Date: 2011-08-15 08:10 pm (UTC)There was a plant, millions of years before humans were created, that had white and pink berries the size of your hand. The taste of it was indescribable; I could say it's like melon and banana and raspberry jam, but it wasn't. Not really.
I used to sit under the leaves and watch the fruit grow. But I wonder now what it would have been like to truly taste one.
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Date: 2011-08-15 08:32 pm (UTC)[He is all powerful, and whatnot.]
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Date: 2011-08-16 12:12 am (UTC)[That's his version of teasing: threatening to poison you.]
Give it a day or so. I want to see if my brothers remember it.
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Date: 2011-08-16 12:14 am (UTC)[Nudging him with an elbow.]
I want to try it. I haven't eaten.
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Date: 2011-08-16 01:12 am (UTC)He sighs, and as he exhales a deep green leaf big enough to cover both their laps appears. In its center, growing up from a pale green stem, is a white berry the size of Break's fist.]
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Date: 2011-08-16 01:16 am (UTC)He doesn't bother to keep up the act around him any more, staring straight ahead rather than keeping his face angled towards him.]
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Date: 2011-08-16 01:23 am (UTC)Its skin doesn't seem thick. Just bite.
[And once bitten into, the fruit tastes of apricot nectar and watermelon, with its own cedar undertones, the way young mango tastes vaguely woody.]
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Date: 2011-08-16 01:43 am (UTC)Well. It's nice to know I haven't lost my touch.
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