Subj: DS:Goddess 12
Date: 5/7/02 3:39:03 PM Central Daylight Time
From: Aesgaard

Tumbling through inky darkness, Angelique felt herself sliding and falling through slanted and descending tunnels. Feeling space, she felt the heat increasing as small fires lit her way. She was suddenly airborne. She flew over a tepid lake in an underground
cavern and landed with a splash in five feet of water on the bank of an immense underground domain.

"I don't like this place anymore." She mumbled as she dragged herself out of the water. "William ! Sara ! Babies !!!"

She heard shuffling sounds from beyond her as she looked up and saw what looked like a group of people, but as they drew closer, she noticed they were something between ghosts and the walking dead.

Trapped in various stages of decomposition, these unearthly beings looked solid from the waist or whatever up, but were floating around on transparent legs and skirts.

Whirling around, Angelique noticed simliar beings emerging from the lake and from smoke-filled caves. She almost attempted to see if her spells would work here then ran through the only blocked path. Why did she feel she was in a horror movie ?!

The moaning and groaning sounds of the walking dead were coming from everywhere. From somewhere she heard barking from three dogs. That would be Cerberus, the watchdog from the underworld.

That proved to her she was in Hades and not the frozen Norse underworld. She had been tricked as Thor said. Ares had her where he wanted her again! "Angelique, over here!" a small female voice called to her. It wasn't Discord's arrogant voice either. This voice was weaker and failing like that of an old woman. She fled to the direction of the small hooded figure which
had called to her and hid with it in a tiny apartment in the outside wall of the Castle of Hades.

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