What have we here?

[str1fe]

Materializing about a half of a yard from the center courtyard where Harmonia and himself had previously lingered. Strife spies Harmonia at a fountain, but she is not alone. She is accompanied and seemingly preoccupied with a stranger. He ducks down behind a bush.

"Who is that with her?"

Rationalizes, "Must be one of the newcomers!"

Keeping

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[harmonia_dotcom]

from that distance, he could see as looked at the Celtic Goddess with a serious sort of innocence, only blinking her gaze away as the pebble fell into the fountain, creating a disturbance in the water.

Immediately she looked up, then around.

[str1fe]

Strife snickered in playful delight as he had interrupted the moment for Harmonia.He continued to wait it out in the bushes, waiting for the next moment she would look away, so that he could sling another stone.

[flidais_dot_com]

Her response about finding someone else forgotten, as she follows Harmonia's lead and looks around. She sits stock still and listens for the slightest sound that would betray the identity. Not hearing anything she shrugs slowly.

Were you expecting any additional company?

Wonders if it's merely one of her brother's doing what supposedly brother's are good at.

[harmonia_dotcom]

she shrugged, loking back to Flidais with a shake of her head expecting anyone? No... It's probably nothing.

She offered a bright smile Where were we?

[str1fe]

*Tries listening in on what is being said, while waiting on them to disregard thought surrounding the mystery of the pebble. Only making out this or that said, nothing he can really make any sense out of, Strife gets easily bored and decides it is time to strike again. Silently easing a wee bit closer, staying as low as he possibly can to the ground, covered by the camouflage of bark and greenery that lavishly surrounds the courtyard. He opens his palm, sorting out two rose quartz stones, and slings them in the direction of the fountain, once again aiming for the sound of a splash.*

[flidais_dot_com]

Head turns rapidly away from Harmonia and looks around again. She is starting to feel just a little unnerved with the feeling that they aren't really alone.

"Who? Surely if it was one of her brother's they would have showed themselves by now."

She closes her eyes and focuses on the surrounding area, feeling for those deities that she's met in one form or another.

Harmonia? Do you feel anyone out there?

[harmonia_dotcom]

she scrunched her nose lightly in a move highly reminiscent of her mother, looking from the two stones rippling the water, to the surrounding area

I feel everyone on the mountain - they're all too close for me to pinpoint.

She raised her voice lightly, calling out

Aww... Don't make me get the Thwacking Stick of Concord - stop teasing.

[flidais_dot_com]

looks expectantly in the direction where she thinks the pebbles came from curious to see if the threat of that Thwacking Stick that Harmonia mentioned works.

Thwacking Stick?

[harmonia_dotcom]

tilts her head, looking rather confused for a moment

But..she's *not* greek. really...

her face perked at the sight of more fruit, and she reached for Strife's hand, tugging him gently towards the fountain, pointing at him to sit on the ledge she abandoned, while she sat crosslegged on the ground facing the two of them, a bunch of grapes in hand

So what are you doing, teasing poor innocent girls?

[str1fe]

"She didn't get it. I'll have ta explain that one."

Allowing Harmonia to move him like a piece in a chess game to where she wanted him, he struggles and figets, while striving to get into a comfortable position.

"Ah...what I meant before when I said that Flidais here was greek ta me, was that, She's a stranger to me,... Some mortals, Americans in particular, say that something is "greek" ta them, when they don't understand it, or if its totally foreign to them. Dig?"

Cracking a smile at his cousin.

"As for teasing innocent girls...How innocent are ya?"

[flidais_dot_com]

chuckles softly as he explains his earlier comment. She picks up a plum and takes a bite out of it without the nuisance of juice dripping all over like mortals experience occasionally.

So Strife, how long have you been here? I feel like in the month or so I was occupied I missed so many comings and goings.

Smiles as she finishes the plum and reaches for a peach.

[harmonia_dotcom]

Dig what?

She blinked, not so sure if it was just modern speech she wasn't getting, or if this was a case of Strife just talking oddly...she remembered her father always telling him to talk so he was understood...but Pappa liked to complain about all sorts of stuff. Answering his question of her innocence with an outward thrust of her tongue, she instead chose to let him answer Flidais' question

[str1fe]

That kiss on the cheek left him feeling giddy and this was starting to become a somewhat repetitive activity involving Harmonia. He was overjoyed on hearing that she'd get Clotho, but that didn't keep him from being immensely embarrassed. "No rush..." He hung mesmerized on those words. That kiss did more then make him spin, all cognitive process was temporary lost.

"Okay..."

Starting to come to his senses. Pictures a snarling Ares, with his hand clutched around his throat.

"I...I'd better just go.. Harmonia's voice, those words "No rush" entered his mind again.

"Finding Phobos might not be so easy since I'm not all together. I mean since he's not all together. I hope he pulls myself together....*Ahem* I mean himself."

[harmonia_dotcom]

she raised a brow at his nervousness, not at all used to making people around her uneasy, and perhaps failing to grasp it's source.

Strife - It's just 'Bos. it's not like he's going to be all growly.

Then I'll go invite Cloey, and I'll see you when we agreed...

She grinned, giving him a quick cousinly hug, then stepped back, instantly fading out