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"So we should long ago have rested after our fighting once having utterly stormed the strong-founded city of Ilion."
Homer, Iliad, Book XXI., lines 519-520 [Hera to Athena: Quick, go after her!].

deuce — Nightmare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHuf6YpzzwU

Isis must vouch for sisterly Charade & Gamlen might survive, on a condition of spurning ancient adoption rituals.
Charade rallies Gamlen & undercuts the vicious gangster & slaver Aveline whose death blow belongs to Charade.

"The day I arrived, the ship was about to leave the place. I said I needed to set sail with them, but the captain was not 
at all pleased. He replied unpleasantly and angrily: "Don't you dare try to come with us." When I heard that, I left them 
and went back to the hut where I had lodgings. I began to pray while I was going; and before I even finished the prayer, 
I heard one of them shout aloud at me: "Come quickly – those men are calling you!" I turned back right away, and they 
began to say to me: "Come – we'll trust you. Prove you're our friend in any way you wish." That day, I refused to suck 
their breasts, because of my reverence for God."
[Et illa die qua perueni profecta est nauis de loco suo, et locutus sum ut haberem unde nauigare cum illis et gubernator 
displicuit illi et acriter cum indignatione respondit: 'Nequaquam tu nobiscum adpetes ire', et cum haec audiissem separaui 
me ab illis ut uenirem ad tegoriolum ubi hospitabam, et in itinere coepi orare et antequam orationem consummarem audiui 
unum ex illis et fortiter exclamabat post me: 'Ueni cito, quia uocant te homines isti', et statim ad illos reuersus sum, et 
coeperunt mihi dicere: 'Ueni, quia ex fide recipimus te; fac nobiscum amicitiam quo modo uolueris' — et in illa die itaque 
reppuli sugere mammellas eorum propter timorem Dei.]
Saint Patrick, Confessio (My confession), Chapter 18.

"Of the king’s ship, The mariners, say how thou hast disposed, And all the rest o' th' fleet."
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2 [Prospero].

Poison — Ball And Chain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd0gCXn-5Fg

Charade is good at everything she helps with & pushed to the extremes some horrid catastrophe ensues.
Anders & Varnell sandwich Elthina & should uphold virility tenfold upon Cullen, Isis' putative first husband.