Short chapter. A bit more Puck for those who wanted it, and bit more clues for those guessing what's happening to Elisa...

Chapter 7- Stone Revealed

Puck lounged back on a soft mossy log and smiled to himself. It would be hours before Xantos woke, and he would slip back into his Owen costume... so he had tons of time to himself. But what to do... too late to begin to meddle in something to a satisfactory degree... but too early to just sit here and do nothing...

He turned and faced a cow, grazing near his elbow, who stared back unemotionally, "This used to be more fun, back when people were less smart"

"Still trying to find you intellectual equal Puck?" He was pulled from his decidedly one-sided conversation. This day just kept getting worse... Lena, one of those unbearable perky valkeries.

Lena was a spit-fire like a regular valkerie, and hated men on principle, but she seemed to save her best barbs for him. It was actually kind of sweet... Kind of. She had flame red hair the fell to just past her shoulders, curling lightly, and long straight bangs and brushed her eyebrows, which were now twisted, like her pretty red lips, into a sneer. Her blue eyes flashed with open dislike, over to the cow.

"I don't think you've found it yet Puck... you need to aim a bit lower". She patted the cow on the head, before swinging back to face him, her hands on her leather clad hips.

"As diverting as this is, what do you want?" Puck flew up into the air, hovering in front of her, leaning forward in that way he knew bugged her. "I have better things to do, like watch paint dry, or grass grow..."

Puck was pulled forwards by his shirt, "I am here to give you a message, you annoying little toad..."

Lena flung him back, and he collided with his previous sitting log. Hovering up, he brushed his extremities off, "Enough flattering... Message, Lena... ".

Lena turned and mounted her waiting steed, "Odin just wanted you to know, he doesn't approve of what you're doing. It's dangerous and unprecedented. It's not smart and he reminds you, it's your mess, if it becomes one, so the cleanup is all yours", and with a flick of the reins, she was gone, leaving Puck with something to do... Think on the advice.

Elisa sat in her kitchen and watched the sunrise. It was so lovely. Broadway was right. It would have been nice for them to see it. To share just one sunrise with Goliath. To feel the world warm up after the cool night. Sitting in her chair, she looked down, watching the sun slide back across the carpet towards her, slowly and steadily. It touched the tip of her slippered feet, and she stretched, her muscles groaning in protest. Most of all, her shoulder. It felt like someone had punched her. Really hard. Like Goliath had punched her really hard. Best to have her shower. She wandered to the bathroom, sleep still muddling and gathering in the corners of her brain, when she passed the mirror in the hall. She looked into it, and let out a scream, before everything went black, and she sank to the floor in the first faint she had had in a very long time.

Oooh... cliffhanger... Any guesses what is wrong?

Wonder what Puck is up to the Odin would give advice?

Btw, Lena is of my own creation. She'll be appearing in this fanfic, and will have a somewhat important role to come