Well this whole mess progressed…sideways, I guess.
But it got worse first, I suppose I should start with that. Triton burst onto the scene right after the
blast. Whether or not he had anything to
do with it I can’t say, though I kind of doubt it. He was there to deliver a message from his
father, Poseidon. He’s sick of having
faded into the background, apparently.
So he’s demanding reverence and, perhaps more critically, sacrifice from
mortals once again. And until he does
fish will rot in the net, tankers on the oceans will spill their loads, etc.
And then Claire wanted to talk about what she learned over
the past year, talking about how a Civil War on Olympus was the bigger issue
behind all of this as though it was some huge revelation. I mean…the whole mess was started by divine
squabbling and meddling anyway. And if
it was supposed to be a rehash of the old Trojan War, well, it’s not exactly a
secret that gods took different sides in that conflict. It was almost insulting that she seemed to
assume we all thought this was just a result of Donny’s insolence. I never did, at the very least, and I wouldn’t
be the least surprised if Andrew knows more about what’s happening than Claire
and me combined.
She also claimed that Civil War amongst the Dodekatheon
would lead to nukes being dropped on Olympus.
Which to me seems…unlikely. Just
because dropping a nuke on everything seems to be her first resort in problem
solving doesn’t make it everyone’s.
Besides, if humans are smart enough not to throw those things around I’m
sure gods are too. And I somehow doubt a
full-fledged God really needs a nuke in the first place after all.
But ultimately she didn’t want the war to happen anymore
than the rest of us did. And we seemed
to have some luck convincing Harmonia that it was a bad idea…but as it turns
out both Ares and Donny were there too.
They were significantly less receptive to a peaceful ending. Why should they, Ares asked, when Zeus would
just take all the glory again and probably put his sons to death? And it was then that I felt the same apathy
in him that I had in Manannan Mac Lir.
Then that I knew Claire was wrong when she said the roots of this
problem lay on Olympus. Because
something was corrupting the gods themselves, across the pantheons.
And that’s when Claire through a wrench into things by
convincing Ares to support her in a bid to usurp Zeus and put a woman on
Olympus’s throne. Which is…I don’t know
what to think of it, honestly. The only
thing in this whole mess I know for sure is that it needs to be sorted out and
ended as quickly as possible. Sure, the
war itself is unavoidable now. But does
this new twist help us end it rapidly?
It was a hasty plan, that much is apparent, and there’s much thought
that yet needs to be put into it. But
will it end things more quickly, and will the Dodekatheon be better off with
someone other than Zeus sitting at their head?
I fear that I do not yet know the answer to either of these
questions. And until I do I will not
know whether this new course Claire has charted would be followed for good or
ill.
But it will allow us to interpose ourselves between Goras
and whatever it is he plots. There’s
that, at least.
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