A break from the current plot. Can you believe the costume went for $8100?

-- Kevin (It's not quite the same without my usual CRS foils...)

I don't mean to be the fire that's igniting your temptations
Don't intend to the the sword that runs you through with adoration
I don't want to be a whisper, my emotions wrapped in silence
Don't intend to be the shout reminding you that time is priceless...

-- Gloria Estefan, "Steal Your Heart", 1996.

Scene: Calli and Paul Holdsworth hanging out at Calli's apartment.

Calli (Ca): Wow! It's already at $3550!

Paul (PH): I wish I had enough money to bid on that.

The Goddess (GC) walks in, playing with her Slinky.

GC: What are you two up to?

Ca: Goddess! We're browsing through the Xe---, err auctions.

GC: {{Unimpressed}} I see.

PH: It's like window shopping without walking all over the place.

GC: (And they called *my* generation lazy for not wanting to spend 10 years outside Troy waiting for it to fall.)

Ca: No, really. It's fun! Here, have a go.

GC: {{Sitting down in front of Calli's computer}} Hmm, Xe-, Xe-, Xe-. {{Getting angry}} Why, these are all items dealing with the Destroyer of Nations!

Ca: {{Patting the Goddess on the back}} Calm down Goddess, it's only a computer screen. (Please don't blow up my computer!)

GC: {{Clicking around}} Was there some sort of recent archeological find?

PH: Uhm, actually, they're props and costumes from the tv show.

GC: Why are they selling everything? Don't they need them for next season?

Ca: Goddess, you do know that they cancelled the tv show.

GC: What! They did?!?

PH: Yup. This is the last season.

GC: Was it the outraged mobs of people? People who finally saw through the lies and illusions and *demanded* that such a heinous person as the DoN should not have her own tv show? Millions of adoring fans demanding a tv show for the true heroine of the time, a certain golden-haired girl from Cirra?