// Ishtar was making himself known. SO I had to let him speak
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Ishtar couldn't bear to stay hidden in the Prime garden. Gaea hadn't responded to her children's invite and had not spoken to them since, so he decided to visit Earth. Ishtar didn't mind Earth, if anything he enjoyed the place for he was at his most powerful. War was a human thing. From the moment they were conceived, humans went to war. Their deaths were tributes to the god of war, and their blood was payment for the god's favors. Ishtar was the most comfortable among humans, but he couldn't hide his heartache while walking the mortal realm. He remembered the places he'd been with Elpis. He'd remembered the good moments spent with his sister. He remembered her smile, of all of her features, it was her smile he was missing the most, the way she was looking at him with her doe-eyes wide open. He remembered the warmth of her arms around his waist when she hugged him, the delicious smell of her hair that always made him want to put his nose in her massive pink curtain of locks. He missed Elpis. He missed the good old times, well, maybe not all of it, but he certainly missed his sister.
He was still plagued with the allucinations of both the Sin and his sister. They were taunting him at night, Pride with his devouring ambition and claim on his goddess, and with Elpis reminding Ishtar of his betrayal and twisting the knife of his denied romance with her. Any man would have been driven mad by such visions. Any man would have been forthing at the mouth with a strong desire of revenge or perhaps would be overwhelmed with guilt. Any man would have been.. but ishtar was no man. He was the Primeval God of War. Passion, ambition and strong emotions fueled his anger for blood. His guilt motivated him more than he expected it to. Ishtar hated to feel his heart being broken in waves. His heartbreak fueled the urge to make it stop. Elpis would come, and their confrontation would lead to her death. She would be the one to die, regardless of the powers she might have. She would be the one to fall at the end of his blade and she would be the one to ask for forgiveness.
Her actions were foolish, self-centered and because she chose to love an abomination instead of him, Isthar believed that she had to be punished for it. His ego swallowed his guilt, which ended up lingering as a daily reminder of what he had lost and what he could never recover. he chose to clear his mind by coming to the very place that could give him the upper-hand and curiously enough, some respite. His black eyes observed as humans were carelessly living their short lives. It was intriguing to see these creatures take offense for the slightest mistake or error of judgement. It was intriguing to see them make irrational decisions and start wars over something as petty and unpredictable as Love. Their lives were nothing in the eyes of the god, not even a blink of an eye, yet, they lived with such an intensity he couldn't pretend not to be able to feel it. He understood why his mother loved them so much and why his sister enjoyed going to the Mortal Realm.
There was a sense of peace. At least, his thoughts were more organized and he was able to focus on what he wanted to do here. He would influence humans for his own entertainment, provoke a war somewhere in the world just to calm his nerves, and he would look for his mother. Gaea knew Elpis was coming and she knew her daughter would kill her. There was no reason left for her to stay hidden on Earth. Elpis was in the same place, gaining strength and probably ready to attack her mother and they had no ways to know where she was or who she would strike first. The sensible idea would be to first attack their pantheon and then kill Gaea, but they could also do it the other way round. What if Gaea was killed first and Elpis took her powers? Ishtar knew that she was Hope and Light, but he also knew of her destructive powers. She wiped out the Sumerian Pantheon and she could easily wipe out their own pantheon, especially if she was powered up with Gaea's essence.
He had to find his mother, as fast as possible, and convince her to come with him to their pantheon. At least, with everyone at the same place, they could have a chance to kill Elpis and unmake the Sin. Yet, the last time he saw his mother, she was less than thrilled to welcome him, and she had her reasons. After all, Ishtar was the murderer of her husband. He was the one who stole the crown and his father's essence to become the new All-father. Ayasha might have planned everything, Ishtar executed her orders and that was something Gaea refused to forgive. It took him a while, several months before he was able to find his mother, but he finally did. She had moved again, this time she chose to stay in Siberia, among the Yukaghir people, an indigenous group living in the cold weather of the vast country. She was tending to the horses but felt the presence of her son. Immediately, she turned around to face him and welcomed him with a cold voice.
"Why are you here?"
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