A small framed, red haired, Greek girl paced in an old library filled with scrolls, books, pencils, kindles, quills, pens, notebooks, and numerous strange bronze instruments that were whirring about, images flickering over their reflective surfaces.
This girl was no ordinary girl. She was Calliope, muse of epic poetry, or she used to be. Due to the lack of epic poetry in modern day society she took over the writing category.
Suddenly Calliope froze. "ERATO!", she called for one of her sisters. Erato was her partner, previously the muse of love poetry.
Despite being sisters, the two poets had nearly nothing in common with one another, besides their dark red hair. While Calliope was outgoing and loud with her personality, Erato was quiet and went about her business in a serious manner. Calliope thought that Erato was a stick in the mud who could use some fun. Erato thought Calliope was a bossy idiot who should read a book once in a while.
They loved each other.
"ERATO!" Calliope called again. Pausing for a moment she frowned as if faced with a great decision before sprinting out of the library in into the halls to search for her sister.
"Why must she dawdle,
I have had an idea.
ERATO HURRY UP!"
Meanwhile, Erato snorted at the six syllables Calliope put into the last line of her haiku before answering with a haiku of her own.
"Would you please calm down,
Now tell me this idea,
It must be urgent."
Calliope grinned as she spotted Erato stepping out of a room, taking in Erato's rumpled toga, messy bun with pencils stuck in it, and her paper-filled arms, Calliope announced grandly "I have come up with the most amazing idea for a story! We need one of the bunnies now!"
"Why don't you get one yourself?"
Erato raised an eyebrow at her sister
"Because they all hate me!"
That made Erato smirk. Due to a rather embarrassing incident with cupcakes, lettuce, and a malfunctioning blender a couple of decades ago, all of the plot bunnies refused to answer to Calliope. In answer to Calliope's plea, Erato pursed her lipids and whistled softly and a fluffy gray rabbit bounced up to Erato and answered in a smooth deep voice not fitting it's childish appearance "Yes malady?"
"Take Calliope's idea to an author, preferably a new one."
"Of course malady."
After the brief exchange, the rabbit and Calliope locked eyes for a couple of moments before the bunny bounded away to deliver his message.
Erato then turned to Calliope and dead panned "Maybe if apologized to them about the food fight you wouldn't have to come to me every time you wanted them to send an idea"
Calliope blushed furiously and stalked back to the library. Why did the Man in the Moon have to stick me with her? She inwardly groaned, I would even stay with Kleio, and she spews out random facts for almost every waking hour!
Erato chuckled at her sister's antics before wandering down the halls. Back to work. I really need to get one of the bunnies to take some more suggestions to Cupid, She mused, maybe some song lyrics to Taylor Swift too, if Cupid follows through. as she waved some nearby rabbits over.
A/N: Wow, so I woke up at like 1AM and just had to write this. This is my first fic and this will be a one-shot unless people start begging me for more. Sorry to any Taylor Swift fans out there but I couldn't resist considering how many of her songs are about her boyfriends or her getting dumped. Erota is sometimes considered to be the muse of hymns or songs so sorry if that confused anyone. Kleio is the Muse of history, so I figured that she would know a lot of dates and facts. I also wrote this on my I-pod so I also apologize for any random words that auto-correct put in there.
