Phoebe and Coeus make plans… (opening)

Chapter 5: Gaia-The Tree of Life

“But afterwards she lay with heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus, Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.”

     (Theogony, 132-138)

Phoebe watched as Coeus finally began his journey, gently released from the strong point they had come to know as the ‘mysterious center’, the invisible area about which She, Coeus and Krios seemed bond, forever dancing about one another in their own intricate orbits, the three forever locked together in a loving embrace. Unlike when Krios gets flung out of his orbit, which usually happened unexpectedly in a whiplike action that would launch Krios out of their system too quickly for anyone to fully react.

Coues and Phoebe on the hand enjoyed quite a different experience when they embarked upon their journey upon the Sea of Misery. For one, they get plenty of notice, a slight relinquishing of the tension felt by the pull of the mysterious center, which lasted almost a month before the tension increases so greatly that they are finally freed from its binding, gently drifting off over the horizon. Another was that when they drifted off it wasn’t quite into the unknown like Krios had to deal with as Coeus figured out that he and Phoebe tended to only veer out of their Stellar neighborhood about a third of the distance Krios experienced. Because of this they were very familiar with the places and people they would see along their way, and was the impetus for Phoebe’s favorite saying, “Bye-Bye Dears! I’m just going to take a quick jaunt around the neighborhood, do a little visiting, gossip with my peeps and get some much needed ‘beauty sleep! Tootle-oo, I love you two!”

After Krios had come back from his last trip She barely had time to say hello and hear about his trip before she began to feel the gentle sag she always experience just before her journey would begin. The three of them reveled in their short time together before saying their goodbyes as Phoebe lightly flitted away, slowly drifting upon a current, like meandering along a stream. During her travels she ran into the usual crowd, first Hyperion, ever so jovial, and then she bumped into Mnemosyne, who always seemed to be on the run, and she even lucked out and got to see Tethys and Oceanus, two lovers that barely gave her a glance!

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