[IC] Deals with Death (RomanAria and IronFrost)

[RomanAria]

Maria flinched. "Sorry, sir. That was terribly prying of me." She followed him up the hill, to stop and gape at the house. "Oh my gods, that's an incredible house!" She tilted her head, because so much of it was held up on stilts and she couldn't figure out how it wouldn't fall over.

[IronFrost]

He laughed gently walking to the house and opened the door. The house was patrolled by two hellhounds in each different halls.

He smiled showing her around the main house of the large kitchen and dinning room. He grinned gently "so this is the kitchen . it is for small dining to large parties" he explained as his white hound barked walking over

[RomanAria]

Maria flinched away from the enormous hound, whose head was on a level with hers. "Nice puppy..." she whispered. To distract herself she stared around the kitchen. Her family had had a nice place but nothing like this. "Wow... I could almost get lost in just the spice cabinet!" she murmured, half to herself. She loved to cook.

[IronFrost]

The demonic hound growled at her sharply but then just sat down and barked gently as thanantos chuckled and pets its head and it wagged its large fluffy tail. Thanantos smiled looking at the girl that wanted to cook and said "well tonight maybe you can cook some dinner. But not right now let me get you a bedroom" he said leading her toward the large hallways and to the room where the bedroom spare was and smiled "hete you can stay in here"

[RomanAria]

Maria swallowed nervously, looking around the room. She'd shared a room with her sisters, and even that wasn't as big as this room for one. "T-thank you, sir. I-it's lovely." She giggled at the sensation of the thick carpet brushing her feet around her thin flip-flops. "What--What will my tasks be here? I hate to be idle..." She wished she'd brought her lyre, but she'd not honestly expected the deal to work and wanted to leave something of hers for her mother. And anyway she doubted that Thanatos would appreciate her bizarre practice habits, waking up at one in the morning because of a brilliant song idea and spending all night perfecting it, only to spend the rest of the day working on other pieces and only stopping at the bloody sores that would form on her slender white fingers. So it was probably for the better that she hadn't brought it.

[IronFrost]

"Your job for the beginning is simple simply go to the roof of the house ever morning and watch the fields if a soul leaves contact me or tell my hound. If you see a spirit just wandering away from the gates also contact me. Bbbbbuuuuuttttt if you see a demigod you contact Hades and he will contact me with instructions" he said and said "now let's show you where all the joy happens" he grinned taking her down a flight of stairs and they would see a massive basement lounge with a massive TV with it "for festivals,parties and Superbowl this is the grit of where its held"

[RomanAria]

Maria's jaw fell open. "How does a TV that big even work?" she muttered. Again she was surprised by the sheer variety of the bar, with both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, including eight different kinds of water (what?!) on tap. "Wow. This is incredible." She whispered. Hearing about her duties she looked up. "Of course. Oh. Sir, I was wondering if maybe, maybe I could somewhere find a lyre? I really miss mine already and I might be able to play and keep some of the spirits in Elysium entertained. And keep them from wandering off? If not I understand completely, it's just..." She trailed off, wincing at how much she'd been babbling. Gods, she needed to work on her people skills.

[IronFrost]

The god raised an eyebrow slightly confused on what she was doing ans asking for but nodded "The isle of the blest isn't the ones that are the trouble makers they are happy as could be in there. Its the punishment and th feild of nothing just aimles wondering that has the problems" he smiles gently as a Lyre appear in his hands a nice one and then smiles gently "The TV works just fine, Its mostly used for festivals, Superbowl and other things that concern us, like the news if possible" he muses gently shaking his head as he got himself a Fanta orange soda glass and drinks it smiling. his wings twiched slightly.

[RomanAria]

Maria still flinched at the wings flapping... Gods, how did he not hit people?! She gasped as she saw the lyre and took it with trembling hands. Shaking, she plucked at the strings, in awe of the sound. "That's... that's... How..." An Olympia lyre, and the highest quality one they made. "I could have never afforded something like this..." She played a short melody, an excerpt of an anthem she'd written for the goddess Roma. Tears sprang to her eyes despite herself. "Oh my gosh..." She stood, tucking the instrument under her arm carefully. "This is... wow. Thank you, thank you thank you."
Turning back to the TV screen, she tilted her head at it. "It just doesn't make sense. It's so big and I'd think the refresh rate would be terribly slow on it, especially if it's a scrolling refresh. The opposite edges of the screen would be disjointed from each other, I'd think." Then she laughed and gave up on trying to consider the science behind it.

[IronFrost]

He chuckled nodding "yeag when you go to Olympus you can get a lot of things" said smiling as he turned on the TV and allowed her to see what they had every channel and everything smiling gently eyes closed "Well.....I think in few days is the festival of the dead" he smiled some of the secret parties of the underworld

[RomanAria]

Maria giggled. "Oh, that will be fun. Wait. It runs concurrently with Saturnalia?!" She giggled, thinking of how much fun Saturnalia was at Camp Jupiter, the one time she'd actually been there to celebrate it. The augur had gotten soooo drunk. Actually, so had several of the priestesses of Vesta.... Needless to say they weren't priestesses by the end of the festival. Her smile faded as she remembered what their punishment had been... Floggings, which were supposed to have been outlawed at camp, but the camp managers always turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to them. She'd been the one to patch up the girls, being they were originally from Fifth Cohort... Three had lived. One hadn't. That was usually the case with her patients, three out of four would live. But she still had a better success rate than any of the other cohort medics and even than the legion medic. But he always pulled seniority... He was two years older and technically her half-uncle, since he was a child of Apollo and thus a half-brother of Aesculapius.
She shook her head and smiled a little forcedly. "I'm sure it will be fun. May I cook for the festivities?" They'd pulled her in to help with kitchen duty at the Saturnalia festival the last year, after they realized that all she was doing was telling kids off for getting drunk and handing out "risks of underage drinking" flyers and not really doing anything festive. And she'd realized how much she loved cooking for parties then.

[IronFrost]

He looked at her raising an eyebrow"I guess you can cook but you will need to start today or tommrow after noon" gave her a massive list of more then a hundred or more dishes. There a lot of soul foods and different ways to prepare it

[RomanAria]

Maria blinked twice at the list. Then started jumping up and down in excitement. This would be WAY more fun than what they'd had her doing at Camp Jupiter, which was chopping onions... nonstop... for five hours. At least she'd gotten to swipe some herbs when no one was looking.
She giggled. "Oh my gosh this is going to be so much fun! I'll start whenever it's convenient... I'm assuming I don't even have to ask about how you can get such an enormous quantity of ingredients? Considering I just saw you conjure up a thousand-dollar lyre with a wave of your hand."

[IronFrost]

he laughe and shook his head "in the fridge and pantry all the stuff you need is in there. you can take a whole bag out but another bag will take its place. it just keeps refreshing its self so no need to worry about it" he grinned gently as he then sighed as his wings twitched again "Well I need to go and get a soul of a dying child, You can keep in contact with me through twitter and intagram and Skype" Gives her the information of his accounts and how to add him on as well as the realm password. he then walked out and flew out creating a deep breeze of dust and darkness as he took off to collect souls from the dying. he came back about an hour later with seven souls and placed them down telling them to get in line and he would check up on them later on. He smiled as he went to talk with hades, unknowingly that his parents where invited to the festival which had never happened before.

"hey lord hades" he grinned as he was perched above him ontop of his chair smiling gently looking at the paperwork "do you ever think you do too much work?" he asked cocking his head to the side. A Harpy flew in and had a letter from Nxy and Erberus the true parents of thanantos saying that they would come to the festival this year to see Hypnos "Sir the Lord Erberus and Lady Nxy will be coming to the festival" the harpy screeched. thanantos froze in place, "w-w-w-wwhat ???? no, no no No" he said in panic slightly his wings bristled slightly as the souls could feel the uneasiness of Thanantos and started to shuffle around nervously and if not ina small panic.

[RomanAria]

Hades rolled his eyes. "We could train that girl of yours to do it. Please tell me you're not sick of her already." He shuffled the papers, then glanced slowly up at the harpy. "Were they invited?"
The harpy clacked it's beak. "Yes sir... you sent the invitation yourself."
Hades forced a laugh. "I suppose I did. Yes. Well, we had better make sure that everything is in presentation order." Finally he noticed Thanatos practically trembling. "Thanatos, are you quite alright?" he asked.

Maria hummed to herself as the wandered around the crazy-awesome kitchen, finding an apron and looking again at the list of foods. She'd make the soups today, the soups and the jellies and the appetizers. She'd get the fruit and vegetables from Persephone tomorrow, then make baked goods the next day, and she'd get up early on the day of the feast to start the roasts and the hot vegetable dishes cooking and prepare the fruit juices while the roasts were baking.
She hummed as she looked at the first recipes, her hands already busy filling pots of water and setting them on to boil, finding spices and frozen chicken and frozen noodles and eggs and mushrooms and beef and all sorts of other things. She loved the freedom of cooking.
But something was wrong. She froze as she heard a growl, seeing the white hellhound from earlier creeping up on her. "Nice puppy...?" she whispered. With trembling hands she fished out her phone.
Thanatos the hellhound doesn't like me being alone in the house... help!

[IronFrost]

Thanatos looked at Hades with massive eyes full of panic and fear "No I'm not alright. You invited them ? Hell you might invite everyone then. You know how much my family disowns me and that's why I'm here " he said in panic his wings twitching and going everywhere. He kept muttering curses and hears his phone ring and sees the text. "I just hope you know what your doing Lord Hades" he whispered he trusted the god but just wished not right now he would have to face his parents.
He flew off in sonic speed toward his house and flew in and went to the hound grabbing its scruff "shhh its ok she is not the reason I am panicked don't worry my friend" hr cooed calming down the white hound. He then looked at her and said.

"Don't worry he was edgy because I am as well" he mutters gently

[RomanAria]

Maria sighed with relief, stooping to pick up the potato she'd dropped in her panic. "Oh dear... Why are you "edgy" as you put it, if I might ask, Lord Thanatos?" She turned her back to him, chopping the potatoes with almost ridiculous speed. Throw the potatoes into one pot, set one timer for thirty minutes, dice tomatoes, throw them into another pot, sprinkle in some herbs, set another timer. Start stewing the beef for an hour, thaw out the noodles. Everything was chaotic and yet made perfect sense as she practically danced around the kitchen, waiting for Thanatos to clarify what was going on.

[IronFrost]

Thanatos signed and sat down "my parents are coming to the festival. Let's just say my dad and I are extremely bad termed base right now" whispers gently

[RomanAria]

"Oh dear." Maria whispered. She threw an apple over her shoulder for him. "Have an apple. It'll make you feel better." she said. She switched cutting boards, chopping up some berries and throwing them into a pot with some sugar for jam. "This is really fun and it really takes your mind off of things... care to help?" She grinned at him. Somehow a smudge of flour had gotten onto her nose and she went cross-eyed as she noticed it, trying to blow it off of her.

[IronFrost]

The god of death blinked gently and sighed gently and went over slowly as he aught the apple and eats it slowly sighing gently as it made him feel very slightly better. He looked at the girl and his wing brushed against her nose and took the flour off her nose and chuckled and started to hep her with things already knowing this by heart s,miling gently