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Calliope - Session 48

Song
Session 48 - Reviving Statues and Cleaning
March 9, 2021
A Future in Stone
(Tune: light and airy, with seductive undertones.)

One day soon, when the stars align
I’ll build a kingdom of my design1

And you,
You will help me.
You can trust me.
For I won’t accept,
You doubting my lies

And if you cannot trust, perhaps you can sing?
Oh, I’ll make you into a beautiful thing.

For what’s one more statue in her garden?2
One more life in our bargain.

So you,
Look into my eyes.
Deep into my eyes.3
I promise, my dear
It will be alright.

Afterall, this is what you want I’m sure,
To be memorialised forever more4

Footnotes

1 Moxena is claiming to be the Queen of Themis and that she had a hand in its takeover decades ago. She seems to have interesting views about how things should be run, about the social hierarchy. Gods, she refused to look anyone but Alke and I in the eyes! 

I am really not sure I can condone that, or what she has been doing to try and seize power... but she is against Lutheria, and indebted to us, so I suppose she is an ally. At least for now.


2 I am glad we could stop Moxena turning more people to stone, but my heart breaks for all those that came before. I wonder if we can find out where this Hexia is and try and save some more people? Though, we don’t really have any of the salve left…

Oh! Alke is sending some home to Aresia. She seemed stressed, so I didn’t push: but it seems like someone from her past needs it. I do hope it works for them. For both their sakes.


3 This reminds me: we should do something nice for Ambrosia! She is looking very tired. She could barely keep her eyes open when I spoke to her, and was more than a little erratic. I think she is under a lot of stress. Poor thing.


4 The two people we saved were… odd. Very blase about the situation and kind of… well, a little rude? I mean, I’m probably being unfair: I suppose I might be rude too if I had just been woken up from a nap and told that I had been kidnapped and turned to stone! 
March 16th, 2021