Zili, 350 AD
Apr. 7th, 2008 11:43 amMauretania 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)
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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Date: 2008-04-07 02:24 am (UTC)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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Date: 2008-04-07 03:47 am (UTC)"Epimetheus...?
Where the fuck have you been?!"
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Date: 2008-04-07 03:53 am (UTC)"Hello, Stheno. Good to see you too."
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Date: 2008-04-07 04:00 am (UTC)Without bothering to land first.
"EPIMETHEUS EPIMETHEUS YOU ARE ALIVE!"
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Date: 2008-04-07 04:04 am (UTC)"Oof! Yes! I'd like to keep it that way!"
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Date: 2008-04-07 04:06 am (UTC)"And why should we let you?"
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Date: 2008-04-07 04:07 am (UTC)"Because he is Epimetheus!" He gets kissed, lightly and through laughter. "We missed you!"
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Date: 2008-04-07 04:11 am (UTC)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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Date: 2008-04-07 04:17 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-04-07 04:20 am (UTC)Lightly,
"Well, you did sorta vanish, Epimetheus."
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Date: 2008-04-07 04:29 am (UTC)Glancing down, he rubs a hand across his cheek, leaving a clean streak in the dust.
"It wasn't about you three."
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Date: 2008-04-07 04:32 am (UTC)And then pokes him.
"You still stink."
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Date: 2008-04-07 04:41 am (UTC)"I know I do," he murmurs. "Forgive me?"
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Date: 2008-04-07 04:46 am (UTC)"I'd like that very much."
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Date: 2008-04-07 04:49 am (UTC)Stheno grabs one arm and starts to steer him.
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Date: 2008-04-07 04:50 am (UTC)"There is payment, though."
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Date: 2008-04-07 04:51 am (UTC)He looks between them warily. "Oh?"
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