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[mansuetus]

Tranquility.

[ Lucrezia Borgia's hair is braided and her silks are pink as her cheeks. ]

The fireflies had returned to us. To them and to those who had been asleep, Ben Tornati! as you all have been so direly missed. I would hear that you are well from your lips or through the firefly.

To all others, I offer a trade.

I would hear of your name. I heard so many names since my arrival here and yet I never asked for their meaning in your respective languages. I would listen and tell you of my own, if you care to hear it.

[ but then she seems a bit bothered by something, as if she had realized something is missing. ]

I have no words of poetry to offer today, what a shame.

[ give her a moment before she'll smile and, lifting her chin with mischief in her eyes, speak the next words in Latin before shutting down her firefly. ]

quae bello est habilis, Veneri quoque convenit aetas.

( The age which is apt for war, is also suitable for Love. )

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[oikodomae]

The stories are different in a lot of ways, though.

[ and in some places, not just stories ]

You don't have a preference?

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[mansuetus]

Tell me how they differ and I shall tell you which one I prefer.

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[oikodomae]

Where would you want me to start?

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[mansuetus]

With your favorite tale, Annabeth Chase.

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[oikodomae]

My favorite?

[ she blinks, because of all the stories and myths she's learned, Annabeth never really took the time to figure out her favorite. There were many she enjoyed, would go back and reread in her free time. Maybe she should just pick one of those. ]

Do you know the story of Atalanta?

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[mansuetus]

Tell it in short.

[ she knows it, of course she does. But she would hear it again. ]

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[oikodomae]

[ she gives a short laugh, because telling stories of greek historical (or mythical) figures is harder for her than it would seem. ]

She was abandoned as a baby because her father wanted a son. She was raised by a bear and became one of the greatest hunters ever known. She was the first to draw blood from the Calydonian Boar, could out-run any man and was the only female passenger on the Argo.

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[mansuetus]

What a foolish man, her father was. To not know a daughter can brings as much honor as a son.

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[oikodomae]

It was his loss, in the end.

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[mansuetus]

A sad fate, to lose a child before one even knows it. Why is your favorite, Annabeth Chase?

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[oikodomae]

[ And this is where she finds it hard to explain... ]

Most women in Greek myths usually fall victim to men or circumstance. But Atalanta didn't let that stop her. Her own family abandon her, and she was able to find a new one. Was able to make a name for herself without that family.

I guess I admire her independence.

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[mansuetus]

It is a pretty story. And pretty words as to why you favor it. I think I might favor it as well now.

[ it was not one of the stories she paid the most attention to before. ]

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[oikodomae]

It doesn't end well, but very few greek myths do.

[ It's the harsh reality of it all. ]

Did you have one? A favorite, I mean.

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[mansuetus]

I love the tale of Echo and Narcissus that Ovid wrote of. But that one is not very happy either, I fear.