Hide & Seek

It was in the afterglow Papillion and I laid in one another's arms, that a set of footfalls tiptoed down the second floor hallway. The doors to both mine and Papillion's room had been left open.. and I saw that it was Kari peering into my own, unaware that I was there. For she was suddenly startled when she turned about and saw us naked.. save for Papillion's undergarment that she swears must never be removed.

I think for a moment that Kari perhaps blushed, or tried to escape without much notice.. though I am not entirely sure why that was.

I asked her to come in to the room and Papillion seemed eager as well to meet with her. Within a few ehn there was more than enough laughter to ease any troubled heart.. and that was when I decided we should play a game. Not just any game either.. but Hide & Seek.

"Good! Then you are It, Damos! Come, Kari," Papillion had already tugged her by the hand. "Let us hide while he counts to ten!"

"Oh no!" I countered before they'd even got past the door of her room. "I will hide.. for I am the great Satyr Pan. And you.. the beautiful Nymphs who try to seek and lure me out from hiding."

Halfway down the stairwell I stopped and peered back at them. I could not help but grin when I reminded them, "Pan will only be lured by the most beautiful and naked Nymphs." And then I ran. As fast as I could to the vineyards to hide myself beneath the light of three full and pregnant moons.

For despite the sadness in my master's house, a Satyr and the Nymphs must find occasion to celebrate all that matters the most in life. And that is living!