Harmonia: Goddess of Harmony, Balance and Concord (ophios_harmonia) wrote in deities_dot_com, @ 2012-05-31 21:06:00 |
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Entry tags: | ~deimos, ~harmonia, ~philotes |
Operation Necklace [tag: Philotes and Deimos]
Philotes was the best friend in the history of best friends, of that there could and would be no argument. At least not in Harmonia's eyes. Her dearest of friends had been at her side through all the trials and tribulations of Balance's life and never once left her to scramble on her own for her bearings. Except for that time when Cadmus died, but that was probably an issue of timing rather than any negligence on her part.
And now, now she had opened her secluded home among mortals in Greece to Harmonia. It gave Balance a place of safety and seclusion as she adjusted to the things that had changed around her. She needed to see her mother, she needed to see her father... she needed to see her family in general but she wasn't ready for that. Not yet. First she had to take care of the business with the necklace. She wasn't going to be in a proper frame of mind for reunions until that was taken care of.
Which meant researching and plotting... and taking Philotes' advice because that's what friends did when one of the friends was so far out of the loop of life that she didn't know up from down or left from right. Everything was different and the world was sort of swirling around Harmonia in an overwhelming cloud of newness. It was culture shock at best, giving her an unsettling degree of vertigo for the initial few weeks away from Elysium.
She didn't really tell Lottie, but that was the main reason she had avoided the whole Derby thing... whatever the Derby was. Harmonia hadn't been ready to socialize. To see family that had all but forsaken her for so long. And she really wasn't ready to risk seeing Hephaestus. It was a long shot, but a risk nonetheless. She needed to feel like her feet were actually underneath her again.
So once she had relaxed... well as much as she was going to relax at any rate, and she and Philotes had come to a conclusion as to where the necklace had to be, she let her friend talk her into how to prepare to do such a thing as get it back. Why it would be in Britain at all was confusing enough for Balance, (why wouldn't it still be in Greece? Why were so many Greek antiquities in the British Museum anyway?) but that was something to figure out another time... once it was officially found and declared to be there. And back in Harmonia's possession.
She didn't ask many questions. Which was why when Philotes insisted that they dress entirely in black Harmonia didn't ask why. She didn't understand the symbolism of going to steal something and being all in black. She just assumed it was the right thing to do. And she didn't consider it stealing. The necklace was hers after all.
“You said Dei was coming here?” She asked and took out the band holding her hair in place at the nape of her neck. It was awkward to get used to... that whole stretchy band thing for hair. Fumbling with it a bit, she gathered her hair for probably the fourth time and pulled it back into the band. She was fiddling because she didn't think the band was secure enough and because she was nervous. She hadn't seen her brother in a very, very long time and really wasn't sure how seeing him again was going to go.