Editing Nymph (section)

==Appearances==
Because they embody the ancient ideal of womanhood and female sexuality, they tend to be rather young in appearance. [[Sandra]] noted that, despite most of the ones she'd note predating the bible, they didn't look legal age as the ideal beauty of 200 BC was younger than she liked.<ref name=nym>The nymphs were what the satyrs were, in a way, holding to an ancient ideal of womanhood and female sexuality as the satyrs held to manhood and male sexuality. There were differences, but the simple description served.<br><br>She’d discovered a maternal affection towards the nymphs over the last decade, but there were more uncomfortable implications in their makeup that still rubbed her the wrong way.  The fact that they ‘played’ with her husband wasn’t one of them.  Such was a partnership with a cultist of Dionysus.  No, it was the fact that the ideal beauty as of 200 BC was… younger than was appropriate.  Or legal.  Not ''distressingly'' so, but still true.<br><br>But appearances were only that.  She knew as much.  Technically, most of them predated the bible.<br>[...]<br>“The nymphs and satyrs should be kind to innocents,” he said.  “The bacchae won’t be, but I can make arrangements.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/03/01 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 3]]</ref>