Lexi gathered us all in the portion of the villa where she was staying the next morning to go into more detail about that whole love triangle mess that she figured out. The central figures are, apparently, Donnie and Harmonia. Whom Aphrodite made fall in love with each other. Then she told Lexi to get the two of them together. Which runs counter to what Hera wants Lexi to do, make sure Harmonia’s marriage to Nicholas goes off without a hitch. But when Lexi looked at it all she figured out that, although Nicholas loves Harmonia, she actually loves Victor. And Donnie actually loves a Scion of Baron Samedi named Brigitte. So Lexi would rather get those two couples together.
And Hera has leverage over her too. Her Dad’s affair with Aphrodite apparently came while he was undergoing a “trial separation” with his wife. So Hera viewed it as an illicit affair and now has him being tortured by the Kindly Ones in the afterlife. But she says that she can get him released if Lexi does as she asks. I offered just to try to summon his ghost for her. It’s a trick I picked up when I became a Demigod, though I’m not entirely certain that it would have worked in this case. And, Gods, you could tell just by looking at her how badly she wanted that. But she just couldn’t bring herself to risk it right now.
But in a nutshell, things are a giant mess and no matter how they turn out at least one of the Dodekatheon is going to be pissed off. Needless to say, I’m thrilled by this whole setup.
Anyway, the decision was made to go shopping while trying to figure this all out. And I somehow got myself talked into going along. You know, because all guys just love shopping. But as it turns out, we didn’t actually get any shopping done. We were being followed, I didn’t notice it but some of the others did. There were…things, with no eyes, that kept what seemed to be nemean snakes on leashes
And before we figured out what to do about the one that was close to us a woman in the crowd fell back screaming with no eyes. And…I hesitated. It wasn’t the eyeless figure that gave me pause, though I could tell at a glance that he was formidably strong, or whatever strange venom the snakes may have had.
I was worried about doing something blatantly supernatural in front of all the mortal onlookers, of proving to whomever was watching beyond any shadow of a doubt that I’m more than mortal. I remembered how hard of a loop I was thrown when I learned about all this stuff, I guess. And it made me reluctant to do something that could cause a town full of mortals to undergo a similar realization.
A fight broke out anyway of course. All my hesitation did was to prevent myself from preparing with knacks and boons ahead of time. It’s a mistake I won’t make again.
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