Hermes paused a moment.  The air around him blowing his lovely hair in an almost hypnotic pattern as if in a whirlpool underwater or something.  As all Immortals were, he wasnt used to being addressed that way, but in truth he was one of them who was least led by his ego.  He answered her politely, seeing Hephaestus as he was, he knew she was under duress.  "Why of course."<br/><br/>Ares could tell she was barely under her own control and seeing how her eyes cut away from him only confirmed this.  Slipping his hands together, he crafted a tiny and intricately detailed dagger which he porposely took her hand and slipped it into.  "Here.  This is so you can control the blade which bears him up for as long as you have need of it."  He gave her it as he gazed down at her.  She was becoming more his with every day and he knew it, though her concern with her father would of course put such progress on hold.  He deliberately stepped back to give Hermes room to manifest thier exit.<br/><br/>Taking his staff up, Hermes struck the end of it directly down onto the ground as he channeled his power over the very air around them.  Billows of air blew around them shaking the very trees around them in concentric patterns.  A great bolt of lightning blew downward on them instantaneously bearing them from where they stood.  Ares turned around cracking his nuckles as he eyed everything around him.  He was about to clear the entire island from one side to the other of all titanspawn life.  He needed the exercise.<br/><br/>In the vast halls of Hephaestus where lava flowed around the archways and small room like enclaves on which the immortal of fire and metalworks passed his time and worked, the lightning blew out.  Arcing through the air from the fire to one of room like areas furnished with a bed and a few throne like chairs, the blindingly white hot lightning struck.  There materialized the forms of Hermes, Calista bearing her tiny knife, and also laid Hephaestus on the huge floating blade which bore his heavy frame through the air.<br/><br/>He was home now.