The Begining

Blue sky hunt

As the sun was setting, Treb circled his prey. His body was dark against the arcane glow of the sun. The forest streched out before him, like a green blanket covering the land, but his mind was not on the scenery. The fox below him ran on, oblivious to the predator above him. It would stop and sniff once in awhile, with what might have been a puzzled look on it’s face from the strange scent of the bird-humanoid circling above it, although he could not see him clearly because he was too high. Treb ruffled his grey feathers and carefully drew, so as to not make any noise, the Kusari-Gama that was his favorite weapon. It was a length of chain with a wicked-looking sickle on the end, enabling him to attack from a distance. As he watched the increasingly wary fox, Treb took good note of it’s speed, then dropped like a stone on the fox, whirling his Kusari-Gama and emanating a screech from his beaked mouth, his eyes glittering in victory.  The fox froze for a moment and then bolted to the safety of the forest. Too slow! Treb’s talons gripped at the fox, and he brought his weapon down on the fox. Unfortunately, his talons only grasped fur and his Kusari-Gama, unsteady by it’s length of chain, only sheared off some fur and nicked the skin of the fox. Treb tumbled off and the fox ran forward as fast as possible. Treb ran after it and took off, however the fox was much faster than him and it managed to almost get to the forest when Treb threw his Kusari-Gama at the creature and he hit it in the leg. The fox yelped and fell down. Treb drew his sabre and finished off the fox. grunting at it’s weight. He slung it between his wings and tried to fly off. He barely made it off the ground.

love my team!

puppet classlove my team!

Take 'er downpuppet classlove my team!

the 'living room'

home sweet home!the 'living room'

Yes, it's really a junglehome sweet home!the 'living room'

Volos

MelletiVolos

Nikos is the big fellow with Thalion.  He was the caretaker for their camp.  The other man is Melleti, the missionary/pastor who organised for the group to come, and loved to watch Thalion eat!  And the view of Volos, where they spent many hours ‘cleaning up’.

Thalion and Nikos

T's favourite spot

laundrya porcelain hole in the floorT's favourite spot

Thalion’s camera stopped working at Boot Camp, then on the LAST day they were in Volos he discovered that it worked again!  So we have no pictures of him actually working, but his team mates are sending some that we will post when we get them.  Here are pictures of the camp they were stationed at on Mount Pelion.

a porcelain hole in the floorT's favourite spot

home base

Preaching like Paul

These show the Ancient Agora,  the market place where Paul saw the shrines to many gods, even ‘an unknown god’, also a team mate preaching on top of Mars Hill, where Paul would go to debate with the scholars.  Thalion also visited Phillipi  and Thessloniki, where Paul planted churches and suffered persecution.  He saw the jail cell believed to be the one that held Paul.  Sadly, he did not have his camera with him then!

the Agora, seen from the AcropolisPreaching like Paul

Columns - Doric or Ionic?

Temple of Zeus

Notre Dame

Pucker up!