mycursedface | Zili, 350 AD

Mauretania Tingitana was what the province was called. Is called. Definitions are hard when the legions are left, and people still live under Roman names. And Phoenician, and, yes, still Amazigh names, and, really, Zili is just another trading town on the outskirts of an empire that mostly forgets about it.

It's a quiet town, a little run down, maybe, but the farms sprawling out over the countryside are still prosperous. It is also a town that remains mostly unaware of Hera's Garden to the north, and the Gorgons' cave in the south.

All six sisters have worked hard at that, magic and protection and twisting of reality until unless someone knows exactly how to get there, finding either sets of triplets is pretty much impossible.

Especially when the sun will set soon.

(Luckily for Epimetheus, the Gorgon girls are out and flying)

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They're beautiful, silhouetted against the dusk like that, fading sun glinting off their wings (and off the scales crowning the head of one).

The tall figure pausing below, shading his eyes against the glare, isn't nearly so pretty to look at -- covered in travel dust, with his shadow stretching out long behind him.

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It is Stheno who catches sight of him first, and it is Stheno who spirals down to where he stands on the road. Stheno, tall and leggy (for a Gorgon; she still barely comes up to his shoulder), lands in a crouch with her wings folding back, and she stares at him.

"Epimetheus...?

Where the fuck have you been?!"

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2020sight

The Titan cringes.

"Hello, Stheno. Good to see you too."

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Any furthur comment from Stheno is lost in the sound of metal feathers and flapping...and the fact that Euryale has just tackled him.

Without bothering to land first.

"EPIMETHEUS EPIMETHEUS YOU ARE ALIVE!"

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Epimetheus yelps and stumbles back a few steps, arms going around Euryale automatically and getting tangle in her wings.

"Oof! Yes! I'd like to keep it that way!"

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Stheno puts her hands on her hips.

"And why should we let you?"

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Brightly,

"Because he is Epimetheus!" He gets kissed, lightly and through laughter. "We missed you!"

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And it is then that Medusa, seeing both her sisters spiral down, finally lands. She also stays in a crouch, a little way down. He said she said, but that was...Milliways. Times all jumbled.

This is Epimetheus, her Epimetheus, and he hasn't seen her since she had a head full of to-die-for-curls.

So, she watches the scene behind slender braids and slender snakes, cautious.

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2020sight

"Come on, Stheno, what did I ever do to you?"

He kisses Euryale on the cheek, disentangling himself, and sets her down -- and there's Medusa, crouching a little ways away, and she looks--

Well. The startlement on his face is unfeigned.