Dream A Little Dream...

I want to set the record straight. After stealing a peak at Tal's journal (that's what you get for leaving it in the open, Missy!) that I do have common sense, but I'm also trying to think of what the hell is going to happen once we get out of the Underworld because of the following list:

• We will escape. It's a sure thing. Ask me, I'll tell you.
• Escaping with Prommie and Bro is going to put us on the shit list of a ton of gods, most definitely the Triple G's.
• By pissing off said gods, we're going to need allies and by all the stars in the heavens Tal doesn't think beyond the pragmatic and while I love her dearly, she needs a wake up call in the emotions department.

I now know after Tal's voodoo book ritual a little more of what the hell is going on. Kathy was the evil in a can that we sealed away. I get that. There's no blonde hiding behind red hair dye here, I promise. However, Ben created her and he created her -for the greater good- which means that abandoning her in the Underworld probably doesn't even count towards working towards said Greater Good goal.

Of course Tal took it to mean I was gaga over Kathy's naked bits (I wasn't) and just shoved my thoughts aside so I snapped. I was tired of the Underworld, of being surrounded by the angry dead who I could do nothing to help because their living relatives had forgotten the funeral rites to allow them passage across the rivers. I was tired of walking, of fighting, of not knowing anything past the hazy six months in the village. I told Tal to grow a damned heart and snidely mentioned that if Kathy was to be left down here, Ben should be too. After all, he made her and the road to hell is paved with "good intentions". She stormed off and I went to help Wuyi talk with Kathy.

After Ben calmed Tal down, we trekked further to the Lethe and boarded the boat where-as the ferryman (the same one Wuyi and I encountered at the village) treated me like some common criminal. Tch! Anyways. We boarded and then Prometheus just... killed him and tossed him overboard.

I told him it was awesome but really? I was worried. He just tossed the ferryman (who's just doing his damned job) over like he was trash and you know what, he's still not a good guy and why the hell is Tal backing him up?! Ugh.

I'm not even mentioning the damned acid trip Kelly decided to take. Girl needs brains.

Since no one else knows how to pilot a craft, I took up the oar while everyone but Wuyi settled down somewhere on the boat. Wuyi curled up alongside me and stood there while I paddled. I know Tal sees her as flighty, but she's got an honest soul and a good heart.

On the river, the bottom dropped out, giving me warning about a first waterfall that Rupper mentioned only after we landed. I just dove through the air and landed back where I stood, Wuyi with me all the while. Then we came to the cave and it took everything channeled inside of me to just steer the craft. I prayed to my father and he must have listened for we survived through a mixture of luck, the sharpshooting of Ben, Kelly's sand creature, and Tal breaking rocks with her spear. The kicker was Wuyi professing faith in me.

The girl keeps that up and I'll be stuck with a first mate, heh. When it was clear we survived, Wuyi and I... well. Things are a wee more official now, I'll leave it at that.

We arrived at Hypnos' palace and while Tal might find it dandy to lick the boots of a spoiled rotten god who prefers the form of a ten year old boy, but I don't. We've already pissed off the Triple G's, what's one more? But no matter what I did, I had no clue where to start looking for our memories. Kelly was being prudish, Ben was trying to get the kid to challenge him in video games, Tal was staring at lutes, Wuyi was getting restless, and Rupper... well...

Rupper bursts into a song powerful enough to make a god take heed. Hypnos dunks his head into the Lethe and the Palace of Dreams became a Castle of Horror. Something snapped in Kathy, and we awoke. Again. On the banks of the Lethe with the lute, the twin gods, and the titan brothers in tow. And with Kathy no where in sight.

If Tal says "I told you so " I'm going to smack her.