Artemis Agrotera

( Artemis )

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Narcissus. You need to get your ass over to Bellevue now. Echo's in a bad way.

[private, viewable by Apollo]

What the hell is he waiting for?

Cronus made his intentions pretty fucking clear when he abducted the Earth-Shaker. He defies us. He taunts us.

And still no word from our Father.

Every day he delays, every day we sit idle, is another day for the old man and his bitch to make ready. It's another day for those of us who are still loyal to fall prey to doubt. Can't he see that we need him now?

Well, shit. It turns out I forgot to have my mail forwarded before I left. Got back this afternoon to a month's worth of bills. Water, phone, electricity - I wouldn't be surprised if there's a letter in there billing me for oxygen consumption. I'm almost positive some of these are made up. No way does it cost this much to live in an apartment this small and shitty. I mean, short of 'Pol sneaking in here every night to hold raves, and if he has he's covered his tracks pretty good.

It was worth it to get away from the city, though. It was just so... freeing, to be breathing real air again. Central Park's got nothing on the Catskills, let me tell you. Big game have just come into season and the bears and deer are always good hunting. I tracked a three-eighty pound black bear 'round Balsam Lake Mountain, a real beauty; girl gave me quite a dance before she went down. Atalanta, it's been so long since you've hunted by my side. What do you say we rectify that with a camping trip some weekend? We could get a group together, even. Brother? Beroe?

Go here and reload until you get five quotes that sum up your philosophy or outlook, then post them.

In this life we only get those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.
- George Matthew Adams

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
- Walt Whitman

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
- Democritus

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
- Bill Vaughan

Reputation is what others know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold

And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle
Of the tramways and the buses making hurry down the street;
And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting
Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.

And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me
As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,
With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy,
For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.

An idealist he might have been, but Paterson was right about that much. I always manage to forget just how stifling this place can be. All these crowds; people jostling each other, cars beeping, everybody so impatient to reach their dead, grey destination. A few centuries ago, this entire place was forest and grassland. Now the last surviving remnants of wilderness are pruned back and landscaped, neatly contained in tame little pockets of green. Everything here is artificial, regulated. Even the cycle of day and night's been made redundant. I don't like it.

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