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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[misterblackbird]

Has anyone tried to do anything about all this as yet?

Our floundering about in that boat hardly counts as 'anything'.

[primrosella]

I don't know. I haven't seen any calls to arms, myself, but that doesn't mean that there haven't been any. And I know some people have been out trying to handle the harpies, at least, if nothing else.

Harpies and storm winds. Do you suppose they go together?

[misterblackbird]

I suppose they might. I'm more interested in how to set the City's barriers up again. But at least some people are trying to deal with the harpies.

[primrosella]

I'm about at the point of going out to try brown paper and plaster again, myself. More for the sake of going out than-- But we can't just go on like this. Something has to be done, and soon.

[misterblackbird]

Yes, I know. And I know I haven't any kind of strength or power to try and mend these things. Brown paper may be my only chance if I'm to do anything.

[primrosella]

It's frustrating, being so helpless at a time like this. But what is there to do?

[misterblackbird]

I don't know.

[primrosella]

...This may sound like a rather odd question, but have you been feeling...strange, since we went out past the barrier?

[misterblackbird]

Now that I've quite dried out and warmed up again, not especially.

Why? Have you?

[primrosella]

It's odd. I keep finding myself thinking about it, for some reason. It's...a feeling like we missed something somehow, even though I know there wasn't anything out there. But I keep wanting a second look, anyway.

[misterblackbird]

How very odd--I wouldn't recommend doing that, though, obviously.

[primrosella]

You haven't been feeling that way? Not at all?

[misterblackbird]

Not to speak of. I've been rather distracted, of course.

[primrosella]

Maybe it's nothing, then. Things catching up to me.

[misterblackbird]

Are you quite certain?

[primrosella]

I don't know. It might just be that I wanted so badly to find something that now I'm clinging to the possibility that we might've missed it.

...But on the other hand, I know for certain I wouldn't be the only one on edge for reasons I couldn't explain, either.