Now while all this was going on the Greeks and the Trojans had been fighting it out somewhere
on the Earthly planes.
As the myths say the Greeks got in by a Trojan Horse and pretty well
raped and slaughtered the citizens of Troy.
However,King Lycemus had not died but had somehow survived and
he and a few survivors were surviving as best they could and burying
and burning their friends and family when a strange ship came sailing in.
It was the ship of King Midas ( wearing thick gloves and a mask over his face to prevent
accidentally transmuting anyone into
gold.
King Midas was the goduncle to King Lycemus's third child,a daughter and was horrified
to learn his favourite godchild had been raped by a sodden drunk Greek hero before she'd
jumped off a nearby cliff to end the shame.
So though the surviving Trojans were in no condition to
carry the war to Athens
King Midas was.
So after giving the Trojans what supplies as he could he
sailed to meet the Oracle at Delphi,a plan of revenge slowly
cooking in Midas's brain
during the sea voyage.
The Oracle of course placed no value on Midas's gold,since
there was so much of it,but she did accept in payment for her services
a lock of human hair woven by Midas's dear departed
godchild.
The Oracle chanted and tossed the herbs in her copper cauldron and Midas saw a future
he did not like.
Over the centuries Athens,home of his godchild's murderers
was going to prosper and growth for the next three thousand years.
It was now 1350 BC and Midas got stomach indigestion as he
saw that in 400BC a powerful Athens would
fend off a attack by Persians
and form the Athenan Empire,which would just keep living
the good life way into 1350AD,when Athenan colonists would sail over
a endless ocean and make contact with
one legged skraelings in a land far to the west.
There would be the
United States of Athena formed
in 1776AD
and in 2017 some eccentric USA President Donald Drakos
.
Midas puked in the cauldron
and the vision of the future ended abruptly.
So in short order Midas took his most trusted Keeper of Horses
and kidnapped the Herd of Pegasi
leaving behind illusionary wisps of smoke to take
the place of the Herd Issac and the other
dude were duelling over.
So while the Herd,the real Herd,were now under King Midas's control,the illusionary
Herd of Smoke faded away
before a shocked Issac and the other
dude,bringing the
Duel for Dominance ( and mating rights)
to a abrupt end.