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[theban_sphinx]

Time: April 11th, 2001, night
Status: Public - Sphix and Loki, other people?
Setting: Manor, Manor grounds
Summary: Sphix helps Loki escape from the hospital

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[leucemic_god]

Something warm and soft moving under him, then something tickling his cheek and soft, gentle horse lips following that ... Hey, he wasn't supposed to be sleeping with a horse!

How long had he been asleep anyway? Maybe he'd better check whether his ride was still there.

After much scratching and petting and whispering endearments into the horse's ear Loki finally said his good byes to Binky and wandered outside.

"Sphix?"

[theban_sphinx]

The sphinx stood up with one smooth movement, and stretched. "Finally", she said. "I was starting to think this would take the whole night."

She turned to look at Loki and grimaced. "And you stink of horses. I'm going to need a bath... So, somewhere else you need to go, or are we heading back inside?"

[leucemic_god]

"Want me to scrub your back for you?" Loki suggested with a slightly cocky wink. To be honest he'd rather do it for her while she was in this shape, though.

"I suppose it's too late to find the kitties about and we'd better get inside before Anathema wakes up." Besides his feet were getting very cold again.

[theban_sphinx]

"Ha. Very funny", Sphix said. "Luckily for you, I'm not an Olympian and therefore, I won't get terribly offended for you suggesting to see me bathe." She gave a short laugh. "Now, let's get back inside."

[leucemic_god]

"I assure you the last time I ran into Aphrodite she had no problem at all with offers to wash her back." In fact he'd done a lot more with her. Aphrodite always had been easy. Most love goddesses were.

He happily re-mounted her and tried to slip his freezing feet into her soft warm armpits as they started off.

[theban_sphinx]

Sphix walked a while in silence, trying to resist the urge to shake the god and his irritating feet from her back. While it might be fun the watch him fall down, that might count as harming him, and there was no reason to anger Apollo - provided Apollo was still here - over such a small matter.

"So, Loki", she said, mostly to distract herself, "you have been here for a while, haven't you? Do you have any idea what this place is about?"

[leucemic_god]

Loki thought about the question for a moment. He only had Adam's words to go on of course and that was no proof.

"That Adam kid claims that he's collecting people here," he explained. "Calling them from all over the world. If that's true, I suppose it's possible he made this place as well. Takes a lot of power, though. I have my doubts."

Odin had been able to leave, after all and it still didn't sit well with him that Adam had claimed to have called him here for protection. He'd come to say good bye to Odin, damn it! Of his own free will!

[theban_sphinx]

"So the owner of this place is toying with everyone, then?" Sphix let out a breath. There was always someone like that, wasn't there, someone who wanted to decide what other people should do. The only thing one could do was to be in good terms with the ones in power and hope that if there was any sort of conflict, they would turn out victorious. Picking one's side wisely, that was the thing.

"Why would you have doubts?" She asked. Better to look at things from every possible angle.

[leucemic_god]

"That's what it seems like, if we believe him," Loki said. "One shouldn't trust everything people say, though."

"Well, he told me that he brought me and Odin here, but I know I came, because Odin was here and I am dying and wanted to say my good byes to my brother. Odin ... Well, I don't know how exactly he came here, but when he found out I was sick he left. Seems to me that, if Adam were powerful enough to summon Odin, he also ought to have been able to keep him here."

[theban_sphinx]

"Powerful doesn't translate to 'willing to be nice'", the sphinx said. "Maybe he just wants you to be as miserable as possible. He gets you here to die, and sends away your brother so you'll wither away all alone, and no one will remember you when you are gone." She thought for a moment. "Except as a lair decoration, of course."

[leucemic_god]

"Yes, that's exactly what I've been thinking, Loki agreed. "But according to his claim he needed Odin for something more important, so I doubt he'd have sent him away. Besides Odin had good reason to leave of his own accord."

[theban_sphinx]

"I like my theory better", Sphix said, but let the issue drop. She tried to walk a bit faster. The sooner she got those annoying toes of her fur, the better.

[leucemic_god]

Loki much preferred his own theory. Of course it was the more painful one, but it also meant that Adam wasn't as powerful as he'd tried to make Loki believe. It made Loki feel just a little safer.