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I wrote this story for the Halloween special over at the Royal Academy of Bards and thought I'd cross-post it here. It takes place between Seasons 2 and 3, after A Comedy of Eros. (In other words, after Xena and Gabi have started having feelings for each other, but before the Rift comes along to knock things off the rails.) I used the Eleusenian Mysteries (a real life festival celebrated late in the year) as a starting point and moved on to Sisyphus's castle, reasoning that its traps and trickery made it resemble a haunted house. Of course that doesn't necessarily mean Sisyphus is the villain of the piece; after all, this is a Halloween story, so things may not be what they seem ...