Okay, so, it turns out that the raven on Claire's shoulder was actually the Morrigan. That kinda... scared me, to realize that that goddess had been hanging around the whole time.
So, in return for the prophecy, Claire had to sacrifice a human. Lexi and I didn't really stomach that well. I mean, yes, I tried to off a troll we'd taken captive, but that was a situation of our safety over it's life. And it's a titanspawn besides, right?
Anyway, I managed to calm myself by taking some solace in that they'd be killing someone who deserved it, like a murderer or something. Lexi... still wasn't taking it well. She didn't want Claire to become a murderer, herself. The poor girl was pretty messed up over it.
Claire and the Morrigan headed off to find a victim, but another aspect of the Morrigan showed up, because Lexi wanted to strike a bargain. Yeah, the Morrigan is three-goddesses... how does that work? Do they share the same mind? Are they separate entities? That makes my head spin.
Anyway, a lot of discussion had also gone on about how to stop the Trojan War 2.0, Claire, in her usual form, wanted to nuke the site from orbit. I don't really know how she'd expect that to work without making the whole situation worse. Though, no one asked, and I think that's whats been getting under her skin.
Myself? I think that we're screwed, no matter how hard we try to fight it. Sure, we -technically- stopped ragnarok, but all we really did was keep the time from coming, so, it's still there, just forestalled. I've read my Greek tragedies, those who fight fate and prophecy only make it happen. Oedipus' parents tried to keep the prophecy of their son killing his father and bedding his mother from happening by leaving him in the wilderness to die. Yeah, didn't work out so well, for them.
Anyway, I stopped listening to Lexi's bargaining because Goras' men showed up, again. They did that same surrounding pattern again, but they didn't seem to be watching us as intently. Kennedy sent a random dog with a note to find Nikolas so we would know what was up with him. We managed to find out he wasn't there, but we did learn that Goras had shown up and taken Nikolas with him.
Lexi concluded her negotiations and from what I could gather, Lexi kept Claire from killing her victim (who, from what I could overhear, would have deserved it), though she (Lexi) put the almighty fear of god into him to make him change his ways, and in return, sacrificed her toe to the Morrigan, and kept the victim's toe for herself so she could check up on him. Clever girl.
That now leaves us in a mess, though. We need to figure out how to proceed from here. The general idea is to try to talk Donnie and Harmonia down enough to see reason. We don't want to prep in-case negotiations go sour, lest our war-prep feed into Fate. Claire's having none of that and I don't think anything we do will work. Yeah, I'm such an optimist. I guess this is what life is like for Bryn, always controlled by fate and powerless to do anything about it. I think I understand her better now.
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