Feathers That Lead Us Together

Heavenly Answers

"We're here," Jupiter smirked at the mess of a woman in his arms. Her hair was windswept away from her face and her glasses were askew, her cheeks bright pink from the wind. She was still shaking as he slowly lowered her to her feet. 

"You alright there?" 

"...Fuck off bird-man and give me a sec." She said leaned against a tree to catch her breath.

Jupiter glared at her. The disrespect, to a god!

"Now will your device tell me what happened to Rome?" He demanded. 

"Fine! you are such a bossy fucker,"  The woman rolled her eyes at him and mumbled under her breath. 

"I can fly high up and drop you, woman." Jupiter girted out. 

"Try it and you won't get your answers bird-dick and the name is Annie, quit called me 'woman' already." Annie began to search up the information on her phone meanwhile. 

Jupiter took a deep breath in. 'Don't kill her, must not kill, she is only human, must not kill, must not kill.' But damn it is tempting.

"Okay, so the fall of Rome didn't happen in a single day, it happened over a long period of time. There are a number of reasons why the empire began to fail. The politicians and rulers of Rome became more and more corrupt Infighting and civil wars within the Empire, attacks from barbarian tribes outside of the empire such as the Visigoths, Huns, Franks, and Vandals. The Roman army was no longer a dominant force and the empire became so large it was difficult to govern, so the worst-case scenario happened and pieces of Rome were taken away and was ruled by others."  Annie drawled out. "Huh, so I was right, it was politics.. greedy bastards."

Jupiter had squeezed the bridge of his nose to fight off the headache pounding in his skull. 'Those idiots.' He could only assume Rome wanted no part of the outsider wars that didn't affect them, the loss of interest for farming and not allowing outsiders citizenship and if and he is positive this happened, the Emporer disconnected from the Senate and made his own decisions becoming a dictator. His beautiful Rome fell, he shall mourn hearing philosophers making their arguments of the world and its nature. 

"Fructus laboris non semper cum benedictionibus occurrit et finitur" Jupiter said with a resigned look on his face. 

"So... can you give me a ride home?" 

Jupiter blinked. "Excuse me?"

"I'm not going to be able to uber my way home looking like I crawled out of satan's personal playpen, I doubt my bank account would forgive me for spending $130 on a ride home." She explained with a sigh. 

The audacity! 

He felt his headache grow more pronounced. "I am not some call coach for you."

"No, but I got you out of the cage and gave you information on your beloved Rome." Annie sing-song. 

Damn her. 

"Fine..just it's once, what are the coordinates?" 

"The what?" Annie asked. 

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It took a while. Google maps is confusing as fuck with coordinates. It didn't help she was screaming the whole time, that fucking birdman flew higher than necessary. Asshole.  

Finally, when Annie saw her apartment building, she pointed to it signaling it to the bird to put her down gently.

"Thanks for flying me home." Annie said wearily. "Hope you figure your shit out."