Dossier Three

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Henrietta is back, sans overcoat, stockings and shoes. She's up to her ankles in water at the Doctor's beach, hugging herself and looking out over the water to try and spot the constellations Hei taught her. Her violin case is nearby on a rock, well out of the water but not out of arm's reach.]

Cassiopeia? ...no. [She cranes around, frowns, drops from the plane and comes back with a rifle scope, which she uses to hunt through the constellations again.] Um. Oh! There's the Big Dipper! Rico would really like this place.

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[lamb_of_gold]

Well, over the course of a night, they move - they seem to orbit the north star. They do here as well, but not nearly so quickly. [Points again] Over there is Orion.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Ee!] I know that one! That was the first one I learned. Signore Jose taught me the story that went with it, too.

[lamb_of_gold]

Ah. [Turns to point elsewhere] So you know of Scorpio as well?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Um. No, I don't know that one.

[lamb_of_gold]

Scorpio was the creature that killed Orion. That is why they never share the sky - if Scorpio can be seen, Orion will not be, and the opposite is true.

Do you see it, there?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Scorpio killed him? I thought Artemis did? Ah! Yes! [Point!] That one?

[lamb_of_gold]

She sent Scorpio to do it, as a matter of fact. And when it had finished the work, she placed it in the Sky in thanks. [Small, SLIGHTLY cynical smile] The Greek Gods can be petty like that - They fly into the most righteous of angers over the littlest of things and never carry through themselves.

[Smile grows a touch, lightening considerably] Yes!

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Listens with a rapt expression.] Do you know a lot about the Greek Gods?

[lamb_of_gold]

[Lul] I would think I do, yes.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Do you have a lot of books about them?

[lamb_of_gold]

Not many about mythology. I learned most of what I know orally.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Oh, you mean like Homer?

[lamb_of_gold]

[Nods] I know his epics as well, but not as well as I know the many myths that surround them.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Did you have parents? They told you stories?

[lamb_of_gold]

I learned from my master, Shion. I don't remember my parents.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Oh! I don't remember mine either.

[lamb_of_gold]

Sometimes it is for the best.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Yes, Rico remembers her parents, and they didn't seem like very nice people.