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WHO: Nephthys & Anubis
WHEN: Tuesday afternoon
WHERE: Somewhere unspecified in Manhattan
WHAT: Mother and son surprise reunion

With the weather turning warmer, Nephthys had taken to sleeping on the balcony of her apartment instead of inside. It comforted the night goddess to be exposed to the sky above, even though stars could hardly be seen here. The sky was an almost blank thing in this city, and Nephthys missed that arching starred roof of her mother's body.

In the mornings she woke, night clinging to her skin, to greet Ra's bright hands and enter the world of mankind as she had been doing. During the week she attended classes on psychology and at Columbia University, and during the weekend she gave her time at a hospice to help those coming close to death. Nephthys understood death and grieving more personally than most ever could, and she could bring comfort to those that hadn't yet passed over just as she'd once helped those that already had.

It was coming from one of her classes that she felt the presence of one of her own blood. But it wasn't one she recognised the feeling of - not one of her siblings, not the lioness or the cow - and so she followed it with curiosity.

A man, that was who the feeling led to, but from the back of the head she couldn't know who it was, only that it was a god. "Hello," she said to the man, waiting for him to turn.

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The city was a nice place to wander around in. Different from the things he was used to, but it was an interesting place none the less.

He'd returned from work when he'd felt the presence, and was half surprised she didn't recognize him. Then again, it had been years. With a smile he turned, "Hello mother."

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His face was one she knew well but hadn't seen for a very long time. She took an unsteady step forward and said, "Anpu?" And then she quickly closed the distance between them, wrapping her arms tightly around her little boy. "Oh, my child!"

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He laughed to her reaction, but returned the hug. It was always so very nice to see her again. He kept the hug for a while before he released her. She looked well at least. "I was planning to come look you up. I've been kept busy. How are you?"

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"Happy," was Nephthys' smiling reply. "Now that you are here." She couldn't stop touching him, her hands moving across his hair, his cheeks, his shoulders. Her son, here and real before her. "I have missed you terribly."

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He indulged her, even if he wasn't the affectionate type. "As I've missed you." Smiling he led her out of the path and onto a bench. "Is more family here?"

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Nephthys sat down beside him and said, "some, but not enough. Isis and Osiris are here together, and Hathor, Sekhmet and Shesmu own a hotel together in Brooklyn. All are well. Shesmu and Sekhmet have a child together, a daughter." She smiled warmly at him. "you're taller than I remember."

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He laughed to that, "I think you've always said that, ever since I stopped being a child." He grinned and nodded, "I'll see them soon. I think it'd please father. I half expected the hawk to be here too." He was fond of his younger sibling.

He watched her for a moment before addressing the elephant that was always in the room. "And Set? Is he here?"

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"I cannot help but to remember you as a small boy," Nephthys admitted with a small laugh.

"Set..." Nephthys began, considering it. "He was here. We met and spoke but now..." Her expression had fallen but now she forced herself to smile for her son. "It appears he has left." It seemed the two of them had been alright for a moment there, but of course it couldn't last.

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He set a hand on his mother's back. He regretted asking, but then again he also didn't. Sometimes it was better to know. "I'm sorry." It seemed like the best thing to say. Then he smiled, "we're all little in our parent's eyes. Now what are you doing?"

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"It is of no consequence," Nephthys said, brushing it off as easily as she could. She didn't wish to speak with Anubis of her husband.

"This depends," she said to him with a smile. "Do you mean what am I doing today or what is it that I am doing in this city? Because if the question is of my day, then I hope to be with you."

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He chuckled, happy to change topics. "Of course. I'd love to spend time with you. I can show you where I work if you like? And I did also mean in the city."

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"I would like that very much," Nephthys said with a nod and a smile. She would be happy to see something that was important to his life. "I'm attending university, which is... strange," she smiled and gave a small shrug. "But I am learning to be a grief counselor. I believe it will well suit me."

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"I think it will suit you perfectly," he offered honestly. Very few would be better. "I'm a mortician, something that surprises no one. I work with a few Greeks. Not to bad people. And I met the christian Death a while back. Interesting being."

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"I'm sure you do it well. We've all found fitting jobs in these times, it does us good. I do not much care for the Christians, but I have met Greeks in this city that I have come to care for."

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He shrugged, "I like talking to people. It's interesting. And good. I am glad that you have people here you can talk to."