Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Decision Making - first things first

Me and Calliope have had a bit of a chat about what to do next. She reckons we ought to play it a bit clever, not go public just yet, because there's so much to lose for everyone - not least because once the Mortal Rights Commission get involved, the whole thing tends to go pear shaped, because they go into every little bit of detail they can, and it can take forever to sort out. She thinks we could come up with a plan that will make it OK for everyone.

What she suggests we do is to have a word with Zeus about things - tell him about the plan and get his agreement to try it - then if it doesn't work, he can go to the Commission and get them to sort it.

Her plan goes like this - we let the "bad" gods know that we know what they've done and why, and that they had better sort it back out again - get Eurydice back up there and leave them both alone from now on - or we will go to Zeus and he will go to the Commission. Don't tell them we already have, just see what they do. She reckons that by telling Zeus about it we will be OK - he has the power to get us both out of it alive if they play up rough, so we should be OK anyway. We can get them to agree something properly ( promises, written or stuff like that) that they will back off Orpheus and make sure things don't happen to him or Eurydice "by accident".
She reckons that makes it what she describes as a "win-win situation " - personally I think nymphs shouldn't use business speak like that, kind of devalues their mystical role, but maybe I'm old fashioned that way.

Must admit that what she says makes a lot of sense, just need to decide who we talk to - whether we say something to all of them, or just one or two - I have a feeling that Aphrodite will go off me more than a bit if it's obvious that I've been involved in it, so we need to look at all the possibilities.

So now we have to go back to Zeus and tell him. And hope he agrees and will back us up, keep us alive all that sort of thing.....here we go.....

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