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CHAPTER 2, section 1: Hermes
Hermes hated doing things this way. There was too much chance that someone would get killed. Not him, but he didn’t share the view that mortals were expendable. They may have the annoying habit of growing old and dying as soon as you got to know them, but that didn’t mean it was okay to [...]
CHAPTER 1, section 5: Persephone & Hades
Persephone slipped in at the back of the audience just in time to see Dionysos disappear. Aphrodite in her outrageous ruby confection didn’t seem to notice at all. She rose from her pillows and made her languid way to the front of the runway as the honeyed queen of the ancient fruit of seduction. She was oblivious to everything except her own erotic glory and the adoration of her public.
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CHAPTER 1, section 4: Dionysos
Dionysos cradled the drum tenderly and stroked her fine hide before teasing out a line in the darkness.
“Dig-dig, dig-dig. Digala-dig.
Lights rose and warmed his hands.
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CHAPTER 1, section 3: Hermes & Hephaestos
“Look,” Hermes growled into the mouthpiece, “He’s on the other side of the world; it’s after midnight there. If he’s not asleep by now then he’s doing something you don’t want to interrupt. And the show’s about to start. I’m not going to interrupt my afternoon off for something that should wait ‘til evening.”
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CHAPTER 1, section 2: Persephone & Aphrodite
“My dear, you are a vision of beauty unequalled since our ancestors crawled out of caves and started beating up on big, bad wooly mammoths!”
The smallish man with bushy eyebrows fiddled with buttons and laces, and poofed anything poofable. He glanced up, “No, truly. If Botticelli had you as a model my most darling Suzi [...]
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CHAPTER 2, section 2: grave interlude