Quest 262

[primrosella]

[Filtered AWAY from the Deities | Attempted Unhackable]

The word "harpy", it's Greek--it comes from a word I can't quite recall, harpa-something, I think, but it means "to snatch", and that's where "harpy" comes from: it means "that which snatches". Which I suppose means they're scavengers of a sort, and rather a bit like vultures in their own way

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[avengement]

Who would they be?

[primrosella]

The stranger? I...don't know, exactly. Someone unusual, who...seems to know to much, despite the fact that no one has ever seen them before.

...Or a black dog, perhaps.

[avengement]

The puppetmaster.

[primrosella]

Something like that, yes.

[avengement]

And when we find them?

[primrosella]

...I don't know. That depends on who it is.

[avengement]

There is so little to do.

[primrosella]

And yet so much to be done, I'm afraid.

[avengement]

Do you wish they would simply vanish?

[primrosella]

The harpies? I wish they weren't bothering us anymore, at least. And that we had a barrier around the city again, to keep them out and things at least somewhat in order within.

[avengement]

They would be hungry without us.

[primrosella]

Hungry?

[avengement]

Yes.

[primrosella]

But they can't possibly. Not if they lived this long outside the barrier without us.

[avengement]

Perhaps.

[primrosella]

In any case, I wish they would leave us alone.