【VXDX】 Oneshots

08 - What's it like to be friends with Death

Summary:

Ryx and the Stygian Enigma Gang share what's it like to be friends/acquainted with the one they know as Death. Well, the closest representation of it.

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"Technically I'm not the "Death", I'm The Reaper." Roki corrected as soon as Ryx voiced her musings out loud to the High Archangel sitting across her.

It's midnight and in the typical Ryx fashion, she is having a midnight snack instead of going to sleep.

"What's the difference?" Ryx asked, followed by a spoonful of microwaved mac and cheese.

"The difference, my lady of annoying queries, is that I'm the reaper of souls, I reap those who are already dead." Roki crossed his arms and gave her one of his many forms of 'annoyed-and-bored' glares.

"I don't oversee the fates that lead the souls to their end nor where they stay in the many sectors of the afterlife in the Afterworld. The Death, you think I am, is the God himself, a.k.a. my boss." He added.

"Well then, rephrasing the question. What's it like being friends with The Reaper?" Ryx asked again with a little twirl of her empty spoon.

"I don't know, you tell me." Roki raised an eyebrow of mild amusement. Lately it has been easier and easier to get amused from being constantly grumpy and annoyed about almost everything in his vicinity.

Must be the long exposure to the madness that is Ryx spicing up his mundane outlook on humans' daily lives.

"So you DO consider us friends now!" Ryx exclaimed too loudly that both of them flinched at the volume right after and listened around them if the others heard her.

Which made Roki glare back at her. "Keep it down."

Ryx merely shrugged, "annnd?" she nudged his feet under the table.

"I consider it about..40%" Roki smirked at the glare he received this time.

"Ass." Ryx grumbled and went to finish off her bowl of mac and cheese.

"Why don't YOU answer that question then?"

"Being friends with you is a fuckin nightmare."

"I could say the same about you, Enigma." Roki chuckled. "You, my lady of madness, is a double edged sword when it comes to friendship. Providing both protection and attracting more danger at the same time for anyone you are friends with." He shook his head.

Ryx remained silent at that as she got up to dump the now empty bowl and spoon to the sink and washed it.