As Calista stepped out and nodded she was ready, Hermes seemed to shimmer for a very long moment before resolidifying with an odd looking goldfish bowl which he used to lean over and scoop up some of the water from one of her pools.  It was a sourcepoint, of course.  The water laced with the natural elemental magics of the world.  Blurring as he appeared by her side, reaching up to innocently take her hand.<em>"Take heart, sweet Calista."</em>In his other hand, he waved the oddly shapped wand which symbolized his authority just as Poseidon's trident and Hephaestus' hammer did.<br/><br/>In an instant, they were surrounded and supported by a whirlwind.  They seemed to just appear zipping through the sky as if the ground and the very city of Atlanta didnt lay between them and where they needed to be.  Taking a second to concider, Hermes gently brought her down onto an oddly shapped cloud.  It felt as if semisolid puffs of cotton, just as one would fantasize from the ground starting up... giving a bit before seeming to support thier weight.  The distress and confusion caused by such elemental travel by those of lower age was a well known problem, which the child seeming immortal wisely took into account.<br/><br/>Letting go of her hand, she would find she could walk on the cloud, though because of the dizziness and disorientation, more than likely Calista would fall over.  Alghouth Hephaestus had taken her on several fiery whirlwind flights before, though, trying to acclimate her to such travel.  Taking out the goldfish bowl, he waited for a few moments during which the waters inside the bowl slowed down.  From the speedy travel, it had been sloshing around in a deep whirlpool.  After inspecting it a moment, he whispered to the bowl in a whispy sounding, soft constanant saturated language... the language of storms.  Proud of himself as the bowl took on a slight glow to its surface, he then turned to inspect her.  Pulling a very small knife out of a pocket in his powder blue tunic.<em>"Now I just need a few drops of your blood."</em>