Hindmost - Another Word for Chaos

8: The Waystation

It'd taken only a few moments to procure transportation, once Discord had gotten frustrated and simply carjacked someone driving down the street. As dawn began to crest the horizon, they arrived at a small dusty town on the edge of Illinois.

"You smell that?" Discord wondered as she stepped from the car.

"What the Hell are we doing here?" Linus demanded.

"Oh, fresh, buttery biscuits," she sniffed the air, "Pepper bacon," she wandered towards a nearby diner as though in a trance, "Blueberry waffles."

"Breakfast?" he demanded in turn, "We're here so you can get fucking breakfast?"

"It always takes me back, no matter how long it's been..."

"What the Fuck is wrong with you?"

"Tons of stuff," Discord responded, "Get the steak and eggs, send you straight to Heaven, no joke."

The diner was called Eagle Rock Café, one of a chain of restaurants strewn all across the central United States, but this one was special. Inside they found themselves a table, one of a hundred in the large restaurant and waited as the scent of coffee and food washed over them accompanied by the gentle clink of silverware.

"Hello then," a cute comely waitress with wavy red hair approached, giving them barely enough time to drink in the ambiance, "Welcome to the Rock, my name is...."

She locked eyes with Discord and dropped her pad and pen.

"Heya Cammie," Discord waved.

"How the Hell are you still alive?" the waitress demanded.

"That's just the magic of being me," she smiled, "Deathless and wonderful."

"Wha..." the waitress continued to look stunned, glancing between the both of them, "And who's this?"

"Look, Cam, we'll talk later, I promise, right now I need to see your dad."

"Right," Cammie chuckled, "Of course you do, aunt D and her whirlwind adventures..."

The waitress ran away, smiling now, almost giggling.

"Okay," Linus leaned over to her, "What the Hell..."

"You realize you ask that question a lot right?" Discord scoffed, then sighed, "I'd always heard that he, you know, he and his wife, had come out this way, so... I looked him up, I mean he's family right? I actually wound up living with him for a while, got to know their kids, it was pretty fun all told."

"Who?" Linus demanded.

"Prometheus," Discord stated simply, "Yeah, after all that shit with Zeus, he and Pandora really couldn't stand the old country anymore, so they moved out here, made way stations, sustenance and supplies for weary travelers, just became a restaurant after a while."

She picked up a menu and began flipping through it, licking her lips while Linus sat, nervously tapping his fingers.

"So you gonna try it or what?" Discord asked.

"Try?" Linus repeated.

"Steak and Eggs," Discord insisted, "I'm not kidding about that, they got this special sauce that's like a mixture of A1 and Spiracha, but with a touch of Honey, it's delicious."

"I thought we were here for transportation," Linus glared.

"Well sure, but that doesn't mean I'm not hungry," she moaned, stopping on a particular page, "Ooooohhhhmmmmm, Cranberry-Muffins, mmm, they know my weakness."