Their luxurious citadel replete with attendants all willing to attend to any and every whim, Pothos had little need to leave his quarters to keep up with all the goings on. Anthony generally brought whispers of all that had transpired the night before with breakfast; Diane would scamper in and spill scandals as she rode his tongue and worked his cock; and Marco, well, Marco got off watching anything and everything, so to corner him at any given point in time was to unlock a treasure trove of secrets. As a result, Pothos lay in his bed, a spider tending his web, attuned to any vibrations that might speak of danger, and after Anteros had gone, he'd wasted little time ringing for an attendant to ask about Circe. The witch had come and gone without doing a damned thing and when the first could provide no answers, Pothos summoned a second and then a third, and when the fourth could only shake her head as well, he flung himself out of bed and went searching for himself, bare feet on a purposeful path.
The doors to his mother's rooms flung open to rebound off the walls, Pothos came to an abrupt stop, whatever meaningless excuse he'd meant to give for intruding left to dissolve on his tongue at the emptiness of the rooms. And they were empty, devoid of anything but light and motes of dust that danced lazily down to find places to rest. A shout for Carolina unanswered, Pothos closed his eyes, casting about for any sense of his mother anywhere near, but found nothing, only a coldness, a blank chill that grew as he turned to seek out another parent. Hephaestus might not be especially fond of him at the moment, Pothos figured, but he'd not deny him answers, surely, or at least, that was what Pothos kept telling himself right up to the point of barging into Hephaestus' office, ignoring the monitors and flashing lights, the machinery everywhere. "What's happened? Where's Mom?" Gods, he ached. An arm curled against his belly, Pothos forced everything else aside. "Please, Hephaestus, I know you're mad, but don't shut me out. I need to know what's going on."