amelia

One day Amelia declared dismay with the terrestrial tether and swore she was running away. As punishment for her rebellion Poseidon bound her to a tree while King Crab clawed at her spirit for all eternity.

By some accounts Hercules had been sailing to Nagasaki when the wind pulled him to Howland. Hearing Amelia's cries for freedom he picked the crustacean up by the pincer and hurled him into the night sky. A flash of light appeared to beckon the hero back to his boat, and Athena remained behind to transform Amelia into a crane.

Some say the earth had been seen with one of Poseidon's sons, who'd been heard telling tales that the sea had taken his lover's wild child. Others say Amelia never stopped flying, and that after finding the fleece the Argonauts visited every corner of the ocean in search of Jason's sandal. The hunt was a flop, but watching the horizon Castor and Pollux found Fred stalled on an island. The two swam to shore, lifted the plane below the wings, and together rocked back then forth sending the aviators soaring to the sun where the pilot rents an apartment with a Milky Way view and the navigator cultivates the celestial charts.