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[wheatencrown]

Demeter enters the Bar and stops as she feels ends and looks around expecting to see her siblings fighting. When there's no one there, she frowns and walks forward as the changes in Bar recognize her and what she brings.

Outside Winter brings its full force as the loss of light means there will be deep cold as the ground freezes hard as ice and storm clouds move across the sky.

She pulls her cloak tight around her as she moves carefully towards the counter, Hades should be here or the Fates.

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[ostro_goth]

Teja is here, though. Having breakfast.

He nods in greeting to his friend.

[wheatencrown]

She walks over to him and hugs him, "This isn't right."

[ostro_goth]

He hugs her back.

"No, it is not," he says. "Doom brews beyond the limits of our little safe worldlet, and this once, it might be too strong for us. I have been to see my people one more time, and am ready for whatever may happen, to stand until the very last."

[wheatencrown]

"Has Hades or the Fates been here? This feels of their endings. Has anyone been hurt?"

[ostro_goth]

"None, yet," Teja says. "The messaging system was out for some time, and a waitrat that works in the infirmary has been duplicated."

[wheatencrown]

"I don't know what to do but I should do something," She hates death and destruction.

[ostro_goth]

Teja gives a grim bark of a laugh. "So do I feel, also," he says. "I am still searching for an opening, where I may insert my axe and pry the mystery apart."

[wheatencrown]

"There might not be one. Things here never seem to be simple. I wish they were."

[ostro_goth]

"No, they are hard, and hard to solve, and hard to break through," Teja says. "But I would not give up. I do not give up; but I might fall again, with this."

He is ready to.

[iamso_awesome]

Apollo had been outside trying to suss things out, but there's nothing like a cold snap to drive him right back in. He's not at all surprised to see his not!aunt at the Bar after that, though, and heads in her direction.
"Did you have to go and make it worse out there, Auntie?"
He's joking, or at least trying to. But his heart's not quite in it.

[wheatencrown]

"How did I make it worse?"

She didn't do anything on purpose, for once.

[iamso_awesome]

"One heck of a cold snap just hit out there. I mean, it is winter locally anyway, but last time I was in before all this doom wasn't that bad."
He's worried, and it likely shows. He likes Milliways. It doesn't deserve this much doom and gloom, nor do the people who can't leave.

[wheatencrown]

"Oh, I didn't mean to. Do you know who might be behind what's going on here?"

Hades should be here, this is what he does.

[iamso_awesome]

Apollo shakes his head. "All I know is, last time I got this much foreboding at once, your dear father was trying to wipe us all out. Again." The last bit's more for clarity than anything, since it wasn't the first time Kronos pulled that trick.
"And it's gonna get worse before it gets better."

[wheatencrown]

"He doesn't seem to be here. It always does. When has anything ever gone right the first time?"

At least not yet nor the Fates but it feels like they might arrive. After all there are tarot cards behind the Bar.

[iamso_awesome]

"I hope he's not here. That's... really the last thing we need." Whatever's going on seems to be doing a perfectly good job of egging itself on.
"Sometimes things do go right the first time. But this definitely isn't one of 'em. The more I'm here, the more sure I am that there will be a part where it gets better, but... not yet."
Occupational hazard of trying to be a god of prophecy in a place as mutable as Milliways. It's hard to be absolutely certain.

[wheatencrown]

"You might want to let everyone here know that. They're afraid. I'd rather find someone to be angry with,"

As Milliways she can do something about without having to worry about her family.

[u2642]

The red sky and clouds are something else, though Mars finds the lack of fires to be ascetically displeasing. The cold snap however is disconcerting to him as he can hear the pain of the seeds and roots in the ground as they had been preparing for Spring and new growth.

Disconcerting enough that he kneels and touches his hand to the now frozen Earth and wonders who is so angry. Here and back home there are so many options.

[wheatencrown]

After taking some time to understand what had happened inside, Demeter walked outside and frowned. It has grown much colder and that sky is wrong.

[u2642]

Mars hears the door open and turns a bit on his toes as he crouches to see who it is. He doesn't recognize the old woman as he's not using his divine senses at the moment but she seems nice enough so he smiles a greeting.

[wheatencrown]

She leans down to feel the ground and whispers an apology in Greek to it, something pulled deep Winter from her.

[u2642]

He can't hear her words but he can appreciate the sentiment after all it's nearly a mirror of his own.

"Excuse me ma'am," he calls out respectfully in English, his accent Californian. "Do you know what is happening?"

[wheatencrown]

"Yes, Winter has come with great force and I fear I have brought it with me,"

Her accent is European with a hint of French and Greek coming through.

[u2642]

The mans eyes loose focus and likely Demeter will sense the power of a fellow Theoi, or close enough to one.

"Ceres? Aunt?"

[wheatencrown]

She looks up at him as she recognizes the feel of that world but he is slightly different as well,

"It's usually Demeter but I have been called Ceres in many times and places."