In the woods. ~Tahni and Ayla~"I heard that your sister's plan went down the drain."Ayla traced her left foot through the fallen leaves scattered about the path. "It's becoming hard to choose who my family is now. I guess it's time for me to find a good man and make a family for myself."Tahni's face glued to the front were not interested in the Nymph's gay. The both of them were walking through the woods. "How about your mother? Isn't she no longer of worth to you."Tahni stopped abruptly,"What's of worth to you, Ayla?"Ayla halted too and turned to Tahni, whose expression was ambiguous,"Getting Vulcan to be mine, then carrying his child."Tahni scoffed,"You know that that is a mere illusion. It's just a wish, something that's very much far from reality. You really think you can mess with Athena?"Ayla looked past her to the bark of the tree few metres beh

    I CHÓRA TOU VULCAN"I welcome you all to this call of importance and of course, need."Athena started, standing before the heap of villagers. The numbers of villagers had drastically increased. You could call that the aftermath of the ought-to-be but was-not war. It had been said that several other people from different remote settings who had gone into hide when the king of the land was killed and the invaders swooped in returned. People who wanted a ruler who could save them and be there for them. And none of them seemed to find a better ruler other than the glorious Athena. "I should start by taking into account your loyalty and how efficient you all have been since these past few days. Even majority of you had gone to the extent of bringing in many of your families and friends because you think it right that I rule you. Because you place your trust in me even in the face of opposition."She paused again. The sil

    In a Cave. ~The Princess and Aynea~"What should be become of us now?""You meant what will?"Aynea corrected, looking past the seemingly worried princess to the cold wall with stripes of brown and green scattered all over it. Many believed that the rock had lived several years before the existence of men. The Israelites believed that Nine hundred and Seventy-four generations existed before ours. And such stories did take the fancies of the Dryad. "I could tell you several stories you've never heard about and we could make a travel away from this troubled land. Don't you think?"Aynea had added, now measuring the degree of mirth confounded by confusing splattered across the princess' face. "You shouldn't had been that loyal to Athena despite the fact that she is authentic. We could had taken over the kindgom and send her running.""And then what?"Aynea tackled. "Of course tak

     In the woods. ~Prium and Miargos~"Don't you think this is Madness?"Miargos' pace behind her gave her a sense of freedom, yet the stalker would not stop getting on her nerves. She spun around at him and yelled,"You know what madness is? Madness is you following me around. Following me about like a leech, whose anterior sucker connects to its host, giving it a lofty benefit to be stuck on the skin for as long as it wants."The fact that she halted was like a blessing to him. He had learnt to see beyond her bickers and indifference. He had learnt from his father that one's first love is like a gun put to your temple, whose trigger had been bothered. Just a movement of the finger and off the bullet goes, eating through the skin, crunching bones. Every obstacles in its way tantamount to bygone. He had been able to make just an iota of sense from that Maxim. And most times, he had knuckled under the fact that his

     The Cave. ~Poseidon/Vulcan and Athena~"Is that how vulnerable you are? That you can't leave the mortals out of the show?!"Athena's intonation fell to rise. Her eyes running through the stern face of the young sorcerer who had his back to them. Vulcan was standing beside her. They had just entered into the cave and instead of exchanging pleasantries, Athena had shot those words at the fellow. You could say, that was her own way of saying a 'hi'."You must have a lot of guts to bring him with you."The sorcerer turned to face them. His eyes were red and there was a mask of laser running through his face. Vulcan tripped and freaked out. But then, the mask seeped into the sorcerer's face; his face sucked it in. "He's my love. A mortal who has everything your immortal carcass can never reach."She shot back and he chuckled. "Do you mean he has this!"He swiped his hand acro