Just Great [Open]

[halfgoddess.livejournal.com]

Cassie can tell you lots of details about the Temple of Olympian Zeus.

Firstly, it is sometimes called the Olympieion, and secondly, there were two of them. The bigger of the two was in Athens, and the second was in Agrigento, though that one was never finished. Today they are both in ruins, but Cassie has seen enough plans and artistic interpretations and digital renderings to know what they’re supposed to look like.

Stacy has the one from Athens. Cassie had smiled when she approached it; unlike the modern reinvisions of it, in plain alabaster stone, this one has been painted in garish colours, as it was supposed to be. It was historically accurate, and a history nerd like her appreciated that.

But what she doesn’t appreciate is how dead it is inside. She is powerless without a boon from Zeus or Ares, and in a place like this, it is most definitely not her idea of fun to be without. With so much on her mind, and so much she still had to think about, Cassie figures having her abilities certainly would be one less thing to worry about, not to mention extremely useful.

Unfortunately, it’s quite apparent that neither Greek god is here to give her a boost. She hasn't seen Ares watching her since she got here. That, if nothing else, confirms they're far away from where they're supposed to be.

She scowls and sits down on the front steps.

Great. Just great.

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[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"Hmmph. I'd ask 'bad day?' but every day tends to be a bad day here," says a girl passing on by, detaching from a security patrol with a few words and a wave to stick with Cassie. People shouldn't really wander around along.

Leela looks up at the temple with her hands on her hips.

"Gotta admit, you can't knock the historical accuracy they got going with some of these buildings, though. I mean, they got the original paint job going and everything."

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

Kate was also on patrols, and she stopped over.

"Hey, you all right?"

[halfgoddess.livejournal.com]

Cassie looks up, and puts on a smile, though it's not entirely genuine. What else can she do?

"Yeah, it's starting to seem that way."

She turns in her seat to glance back at the Temple for a second, and then glances back up at Leela. "I'm surprise you know that. Most people would ask why someone went paint-crazy on the marble."

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Cassie nods.

"In this place? As alright as I can be, I think."

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

Kate found a seat nearby, mindful of the colorful pillars.

"I know, been around for maybe months now and it's still hard to adjust to," She remarked with a sigh.

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It's not an entirely foreign concept to Cassie, but every time she hears it, it still gets her. It's like Kon being gone for five seconds, but really having been gone for five months.

"I'm sorry to hear that... and I can already imagine why it's hard to adjust to. Hopefully we all find a way out soon."

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

Kate nodded, "I'd say you get used to it, but haven't really seen anyone who has. Well maybe a few people."

She then offered her hand, "I'm Kate by the way."

[halfgoddess.livejournal.com]

She takes Kate's hand and shakes it. "Cassie. Nice to meet you."

"I've been through some pretty crazy stuff, but at least all those times, I knew how I got here. No matter how anyone swings it, plucking people out of different points in the timestream and putting them in pods isn't exactly justifiable."

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Kate smiled at that though there was a touch of sadness and homesickness in her blue eyes. Thinking of her friend Cassie from back home.

"Know a good friend by that. Friend and teammate really. We've been through crazy times there too."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"I'm a bit of a history buff," she says, plopping down next to her on a step. She unclasps a sheathe from her back, containing some sort of sickle, and lays it down next to her, sprawling out on the steps, relaxed. "More war history than anything--my dad's in the army, and he was crazy about military history--but history in general. Before my life went all whacked, I was hoping to go to college to become a history professor or something."

[halfgoddess.livejournal.com]

"Ahh, neat. My mom is the curator of Gateway City Museum, and an archaeologist, so I grew up on history, too. More political and cultural history, but I'm not completely lost on war history. War practically defines history, anyway."

Cassie smiles.

"Greek history's my favourite, though. Yours?"

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"Hm," Cassie murmurs, pleasantly. "It's a popular name. I've known a bunch of Cassandras, and I swear all of them go by Cassie at some point, too."

Now Cassie's thinking about baseball on alien planets.

"Just out of curiosity, what kind of crazy stuff?"

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, she always has gone by it with us."

Kate leaned back as she sat to stretch, and then added, "Mmmm... like two alien races showing up for a turf war/custody battle?"

[halfgoddess.livejournal.com]

"Definitely crazy, but that one's not unheard of. Everything end up okay there?"

She figures she should throw in an anecdote.

"I think aliens kidnapping Young Justice to make us play baseball is the height of weird for me."

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, my friend and the Super Skrull tricked them so they couldn't take our friend away from Earth."

Kate smiled more at that, "Why baseball? And we're called the Young Avengers."

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"That's good. What's a Super Skrull?" Cassie's curious.

"This planet called Myrg picked it up as their official sport, and we basically had to play to save Earth, or something. Apparently they saw it from Earth broadcasts and copied it, but they claimed they had come up with it in the first place. It was a pretty ridiculous planet," she explains.

"Superhero thing?"

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"Sounds it, we haven't had anything weird like that yet. The Super Skrull is one of the head soldiers for the Skrull. These shapeshifting aliens. My friend's half Kree, half Skrull, and both armies showed up to call dibs on him."

Kate nodded, "Yeah, there's a couple of us. Seven all together."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"Middle Eastern, Indian. Cradle of civiliation stuff. Like Norse a bit, though. Vikings are hella interesting," she says. "Horrible people, I can tell you that from experience, almost, but interesting. I think I liked 'em more before I met people like 'em."

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"Met people like them?" Cassie's intrigued. She shifts, lifting her head a bit. "Just your everyday thugs with a Viking twist, or...?"

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"Must be a popular guy, if they were going to go that far," she smiles.

"A whole other superhero universe, then," she remarks. "Young Justice disbanded, so we have the Teen Titans now, but yeah. Small groups, superheroes in training, hanging out with other heroes of their own age group."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"Nah, kinda real Vikings, but kinda not. Me and my friend Irene sort of got zapped to this alternate version of Earth, called Erthe. No 'A,' 'E' at the end. Sort of like if ancient cultures were still almost there and just way more ancient, and if there was magic and steam tech and all that. But there were Vikings. Barbarian raiders. All kinds of stuff that's long gone back home," Leela explains with a flighty gesture of her hand. "That's where I was before I got grabbed here."

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"I would say it sounds like fun to explore, but given their history, probably best left to the textbooks." Cassie suggests. "Sounds like an interesting world, though."

She pauses.

"If you don't mind me asking, how long has it been since this place grabbed you?"

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She wrinkles her nose.

"The days get all fuzzy." She goes on. "That's actually kinda suspicious when you think about it. I'd say a month or two. Maybe more, maybe less. Hard to track time when there's no clocks and no rising and setting of the sun. It rises and sets in the city, but seems to do it faster than it does on Earth, so you can't time it by that."

[halfgoddess.livejournal.com]

"I read about something like that once. Some people volunteered to be stuck in an apartment for a month, with all the windows cemented off so there was no natural light, and no clocks. By the end of the month, their inner clocks were so shot they misjudged the lengths of days by almost half."

She's tempted to start a tally or something, but how would she possibly know when to tick it off, under these circumstances?

"It's like we're a science experiment."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"If we had anything to gamble with, I'd get a pool going. There's science experiment, slaves, trapped by an out of control insane AI, trapped by evil gods that want us to do stuff, weird space anomalies, forcibly recruited into war, or aliens want to eat us."