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 Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:02 pm
Hermes snuck around the camp and, making sure he was out of sight of everyone, he prepared to make his flight back to Olympus.
However, Arwa, who had sneakily followed him, got caught up in the updraft of wind as Hermes took off and was taken along with him to Olympus.
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:59 am
Sage glanced around making a mental note of who all was there. "Delilah did Arwa mention going anywhere?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:48 pm
"No." Delilah said, "I suppose he's playing around here." She then left the small group to look around the camp. On returning, she said worriedly, "The bard's gone too and I can't find hide or hair of Arwa, or even find his scent."
On asking Rhaskos if he had seen Arwa, her small 'son' anywhere, the Thracian replied that he hadn't seen the boy since he'd spoken to the bard earlier.
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:27 pm
Sage frowned. "That's not like Arwa. Hopefully he's ok and will show up again soon."
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:32 am
After waiting for less than a full half hour for Arwa's return, Delilah organised a group search for her missing 'boy'.
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:31 pm
Sage shook her head as she walked through the Forest looking for Arwa. This wasn't like him at all. He had never tried to wander off from them before. She hoped nothing bad had happened to him. After they found him she was going to suggest that Flicker put a tracking collar on the boy so he didn't worry them like this again.
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:57 pm
Delilah did an aerial swoop of the area, and saw nothing too unusual. Having transformed her arms into wings similar to a bat's, Delilah had trouble keeping aloft for a long time and distance. She landed a few hundred feet away from the group, at the cliff, then borrowing the eyes of a falcon, she scanned the landscape whilst catching her breath. Far ahead, deep into Trojan territory, Delilah spotted a small yellow dot.
Now this dot, or rather, splodge, was not naturally made. It almost appeared to be like someone had spilt much yellow paint on the orange landscape. It caught her attention, and Delilah took off towards it.
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 1:18 pm
Sage shook her head as she headed back towards camp stopping every few seconds to look through some of the bushes and up in the trees to see if Arwa might not be hiding and playing a joke.
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:50 pm
Delilah landed near the yellowish object.
On picking it up, she found it to be an old tunic, discarded on the main road to walled Troy. She thought that she recognised it, and remembered that the bard had been wearing a similar garment.
She picked it up and was about to fly back to the group when she was clubbed over the back of the head with a heavy object.
As Delilah lost consciousness, she saw three soldiers approach her cautiously with a large net and spears.
Arwa... Where is he? Was her last conscious thought.
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 4:13 pm
Markus looked around. He enlarged himself to see over the treetops. He looked around for Arwa.
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:55 pm
Sage arrived back at Camp and looked around at her friends. Arwa wasn't there and neither was Delilah. "Has anyone seen Delilah? She should be back by now."
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 10:43 am
When Delilah woke, she saw people looking up at her.
Taking several dazed minutes to twist her head to look up, she saw that she was suspended from the ceiling of a dungeon cell.
"Behold, my lord, your soldiers captured a harpy on the road to Troy." she heard a voice below her say, a young soldier who spoke differently to the greeks that she had encountered previously.
She looked around through squinting eyes, pretending to be limp, either dead or a 'jenny hanniver', one of the manufactured bodies of mythical beasts.
"It's a fake. You've taken a body of a woman, chopped off her arms and replaced them with some leathery fake wings." An old man said with a grim face as he approached Delilah.
As he reached out for her shoulder to try to pull the 'wings' off,
Delilah mumbled, half between a groan, "Hey! No touching!"
There was a spear poked at her waist by a soldier. The soldier warned, "Stay back my lord! It's not dead yet?"
"What do you mean not dead yet? I was knocked out, you son of a baboon!" Delilah hissed at the spear bearer as she turned to face him.
"Daemon!" gasped another soldier, on Delilah's right, and tried to hide behind the old man.
"Calm yourselves, men. I'm sure this... creature, whatever it is, has a perfectly good reason for appearing on our roads. After all, didn't the oracles speak of a visitor that we should be kind to?"
"Yes my lord, although, this could also be the visitor that we should throw out, after all, the oracles did speak of that as well." spoke the cowardly soldier.
"Pavlos?" spoke the spear-wielding soldier, still jabbing the spear into her waist.
"Yes Thales?"
"Shut up."
"I wish to speak with this creature. Stand by the gate." spoke the old man.
"Yes Lord Priam." said the two as Delilah saw them leave, daring finally to open her eyes fully.
The old man had a well built figure that showed the ravages of great age upon his skin. He was nearing baldness, but with what hair he had left, it appeared almost like a white halo resting on his head. He wore a turquoise-blue long khiton, which Delilah thought was a dress.
"Tell me, creature." Began the old king, "Tell me of the way which you came here."
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:20 pm
The moment Hermes had landed in Olympus, he was aware that something had been tailing him. He'd turned to look behind himself many times, but all he had seen was a strange cloud following him. He had waited on landing to see if it was still following him, but to his disappointment, it was not. He started walking to the
When Arwa had been flying, he had been thrown through various layers of clouds. The thin ones were fine, but the thicker cloud types stuck to him like wool. Now resembling a cloud, Arwa tried to steer himself towards solid land, and, on sighting it coming up, he steered the cloud towards the land- which just happened to be Mount Olympus.
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:21 pm
Artemis smiled when she saw Hermes. Her hunting hounds quickly moved to surround him. "Hermes welcome back. How were those people doing? Did they appease Pan?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:35 am
Hermes sighed whilst looking back, "Yeah, They did." He didn't want to go into the frankly embarassing encounter with the African woman's transformation. "They picked up a Thracian as well." he said, saying as little as possible.
Arwa found himself on a garden, where as he landed, he saw many ornamental plants. He smelt roses, tulips, Lillies, and a strange Buddleia plant that attracted many butterflies. He walked towards it, his legs finally free from the cloud that had enclosed them. Though he looked like an anthropomorphic cloud, Arwa was still able to move freely. His eyes caught the sight of a strange green hairy plant that looked like a human.
He walked towards it, and instinctively touched it.
"Ow!" shouted Arwa, removing his hand from the plant. Small wisps of cloud got caught on the incriminating Cactus as Arwa speedily ran to find somewhere else that didn't have strange spikey plants.
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