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Lex snorted, amused at the booming voice. Brian was such a cop. He ambled over and tipped his head, fizzing curls flopping in his face. "I have one.. and an urge to punch Circe in the face," he replied, and gave a lopsided grin. "Maybe you should stand on a table or something, make yourself more noticeable."

Truthfully, Lex just wanted to see Brian scale a picnic table and shout. He was already a giant.

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Sylvia was hanging at the edge of camp and debating going out for another walk when she heard Brian’s voice boom from a large rock on the other side of camp. Pieces of map? She had that! Hadn’t Ernst mentioned having a piece of map as well? She glanced around, but didn’t see her tall friend. Sylvia found her piece of map (carefully concealed in the side of her bra – her sweatshirt pockets could have easily dropped it, alright?) and stood from her seated position, heading over to Brian, where Lex had already joined.

“I have one!” Sylvia called out as she approached, holding her map piece aloft between two fingers. When she got closer, she laid it out on her palm and smoothed it down a bit. “I’m sure they’d all be a lot more useful if we pieced them together.” She offered a smile and held out her palm to Brian and Lex so they could see her piece.

"Okay," Lex shrugged and swung up on the table with the map pices, laying them down. Well, there seemed to be quiet a bit of water about. "Come and join us!" He called merrily, motioning to lay the map pieces down by the others.

"Ooh," Lex grinned up at Mathilda. "Lex, nice to meet you Mathlida. Join us on the puzzle map quest."

In Zan's opinion, he was carrying around a big old piece of useless, but if the Zeus with the Mouth wanted it, he was welcome to it. The Hermes Chosen circled around the table, dropping his crinkled scrap of paper in an empty spot as he came to a stop at Sylvia's side.

“Hello again, Mathilda.” Sylvia smiled and gave a nod. She wasn’t sure she wanted to know how Mathilda had ‘persuaded’ the teen she’d encountered, but at least they had a more complete map for it. She was glad she hadn’t needed to do much other than be herself to get her own piece of map. She wondered how the others came by theirs, but she could be curious later.

She followed Lex as he moved them all to the table, sitting on the edge of it and looking at the pieces he’d already laid out. It didn’t really look like the pieces they had accumulated actually lined up, but she held her piece over the others to be sure – and found that one of her edges seemed to match up with an edge of Brian’s piece. “Oh! Maybe? Yes?” She laid her piece down with his and glanced at the others for confirmation.

She nodded the trail, tilting her head at the map pieces. “Shame we don’t have many pieces with that.” She shook her head at Brian’s questions, however. “I haven’t seen anything. But then again, I haven’t really been looking for anything like that…”

She felt a presence at her side, and looked over to find Zan. A large smile grew across her lips as she greeted him, “Hello, sir.” She looked down at the bit of map he’d dropped. “Does that one seem to line up anywhere?” She was excited that they were beginning to get more pieces. Perhaps they could piece it all together in time! Or, mostly together. Either way, it would be more than they’d had before.

A squeaking distracted her, and Sylvia looked down to find a tiny dormouse at Lex’s foot. She giggled a bit and looked up at him. “I think someone is trying to get your attention.”

Hah! More pieces! Brian offered Zan a fleeting smile. He remembered him from that whole rescue mission in the Alps. They'd done fairly well, but now was the time for maps.

"Here's more...path," he said, motioning to Zan's piece. Good, good. Who knew that standing on a rock and yelling could actually accomplish anything?

"This edge looks different than this one," he said, pointing. Other people mattered less than the mission at the moment, so long as nothing was barreling at them through the woods. Had anyone saved Griffin yet? Either way, he moved his own piece toward what he imagined as a side edge. Maybe it was like a jigsaw?

He turned to see Misha pop up then and offered her a little smile before realizing Beth was atop her head. That was... pretty adorable, actually.

"Did you have a piece?" he asked them simultaneously. Would he even be able to see a mouse nod?

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Upon feeling Misha trying to get her atop her head (which felt rather like something bumping into her repeatedly), she hunkered down for a moment before realizing who it was and what her intentions were. It took a few tries, but finally Beth rode Misha's head like an elevator, teetering dangerously before being able to scramble up onto the table. She patted Misha's head in thanks and scurried over the assembled pieces, trying to remember what her piece looked like.

To Brian, she looked up and nodded, pointing to the pieces and then pointing to herself, hoping he understood. She looked around at the people, then ran to the corner of the table closest to Lex. She ran around in a circle in front of him, then quirked her tail in what she hoped looked like a question mark. Standing on her back paws, she ran each of her paws over her opposite front legs and then clenched her digits, placing them a small distance away from each other on her chest. She looked up at Lex earnestly, hoping he--or any of them, really--had understood her charades.