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You have so much to do.
Will woke up with the sun. His father Apollo bringing daylight to the world. He walks through the woods, choosing to spend most of his time on earth serving and helping mortals instead of living on Olympus with the other Gods and Goddesses.
He sat down for a moment in the woods. The breeze that day was light a cool, bringing a nico contradiction to the warmth of the day. He looked in at the trees, lightly blowing in the wind noting the sunlight that creeps between the leaves.
He sighed a breath of fresh air feeling relaxed compared to his usual days. He closed his eyes and listened to the sounds, he heard the wind blowing softly and the chirps of the birds. The birds, they sounded different than usual. He opened his eyes and saw in a tree, a bird he recognized but couldn't quite name. The special thing about these birds is they repeat the melodies they hear. The melody they were repeating had a strange feeling of melancholy. Almost as if the song was weeping sorrows
Will once again closed his eyes this time listening to the birds song. It had to have been sjng recently. He hadn't felt much woe in his life, but this song filled him with a sort of grief he hadn't felt before. Before long the song died out as the birds began chirping back and forth to each other.
Will decided it was time to start his day and began his way to the nearby village, the song wouldn't leave his memory at all.
☆ミ☆ミ☆ミ☆ミ☆ミ☆ミ☆ミ☆ミ☆ミ☆ミ☆ミ
And I have nothing ahead of me.
Nico had barely left his home in days. He hadn't gone anywhere since his sister's funeral. He had finally worked up the motivation to go outside. It was the middle of the night and his other sister Hazel was sound sleep, happy and content as she rested.
He walked out to the woods near the village. Somewhere out in those woods was a temple for a certain minor God that Nico couldn't remember the name of. Hazel had told him that the God was here and was helping the people of the village. He was known for traveling to different villages to fix their problems. Nico thought I He prayed at that temple, he might actually be heard.
It didn't take long for Nico to get lost in the woods. The cold breeze blew through the night as nico rested underneath a tree. He couldn't help but find the chill familiar almost welcoming. He looked at the ground, the shadow of the trees in the night made the darkness more comforting for some reason. The only place that wasn't painted in shadows were the specks of moonlight pearing through the leaves of the tree.
Nico looked up at the night sky through a canopy of leaves ubove him. He saw the moon, full and bright, shining down upon him. The moon, seems so far, so special. Nico couldn't picture himself as something so bright and comforting. He turned his attention to the stars. So many small lights plaguing the inky dark sky. Each one almost exactly like the last, not one of them special, not like the moon. However they each shine brightly, creating a unique array of lights in the night sky. "I can't be the moon, but I couldn't even be a star either." Nico's thoughts plagued him.
He looked up at the trees and saw a family of song birds resting in their nest. Family. Something Nico had been robbed of. The only person who cared enough to provide for him was gone. He remembered a lullaby that Bianca used to him at night. He always thought it sounded somewhat sad, but he remembered every word. He began to softly sing the tune. He sighed remembering when Bianca was here to sing it to him.
Then he heard it. The bird started singing his song. Then the other birds sang with her. That song bird was the only bird not sleeping. But as nico saw the sunrise on the horizen he heard mire of the birds repeating his song. Like a domino effect his song could be heard throughout the forest. Nico sang it again along side the chirping of the birds repeating. He sighed and leaned his head back as he closed his eyes wistfully falling asleep to the sounds of the birds singing solmn lullaby.