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  1. Public Bookmark 66

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    Athena scoops up a handful of sand, letting it slide through her fingers in a crude imitation of an hourglass. She’s been sitting on the beach — or what passes for a beach on craggy Ithaca — for the past hour, watching the waves crash against the rocks. The tide’s coming in. If she doesn’t move soon, the sea will catch her, will wash over her and drag her out into deeper, colder waters. She wouldn’t mind. She could just float for a while. Like a jellyfish, drifting and aimless, rocked to and fro by the waves. Remarkable animals, jellyfish. They have survived for eons without a brain.

    It’s a comforting thought, and a terrifying one.

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    Six weeks on from God Games, Athena is forced to contend with the fact that getting back to normal will take longer than she anticipated.

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    20 May 2025

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  2. Public Bookmark 8

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    Soyona levels the remote towards the opposite end of the suite, and its characteristic shrill whirring soon follows. Red’s head perks up at the call, and Brooklynn watches as she trots almost mindlessly into a separate room, fear still clung to her attention.

    She’s eased down by Soyona onto one of the chaises opposite the kitchen, softly squeezing Brooklynn’s shoulder in reassurance, before her attention darts to the table in front of them. Atop it sits a small metal tub, the fluorescents of the penthouse shimmering in its polished reflection, and within it several layers of ice cradle a fizzing bottle of golden champagne.

    Brooklynn regards the drink with surprise, her panic fading as she watches the beads of condensation dribble down the bottle’s curves. “What’s…this?”

    “A reward,” Soyona explains proudly, “for your continued loyalty. I figured a bonus to your cheque wasn’t adequate enough compensation for helping me in Senegal.”

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    What happens when you put a private investigator and a dinosaur broker in a room together with a bottle of champagne between them? Brooklynn's money is on business secrets getting spilled, but Soyona's mind is elsewhere...

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    "Athena, help, help!" Odysseus hisses, darting behind her. Athena tenses up, grabbing her spear. "Your wife is after me!"

    "She is your wife," Athena rolls her eyes, relaxing and letting the weapon dissolve. Odysseus presses himself between her stature and the wall, arranging her robes around him to make it seem she was sitting on the settee alone.

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    07 Feb 2025

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    The five levels of God Games but it's five levels of the players bonding with Athena after her little date with the lightning bolt. Some are right after it happens, some a little later.
    Athena is not okay but her family is like really sweet, for once.

    Get ready for:
    ༺𝒜𝓅ℴ𝓁𝓁ℴ༻
    🅷🅴🅿🅷🅰🅴🆂🆃🆄🆂
    ♡ ᗩᑭᕼᖇOᗪITE ♡
    𝕬𝖗𝖊𝖘
    ꧁ℍ𝕖𝕣𝕒꧂
    and an average Olympian Council meeting with a bunch of the Gods.
    (Also Ody is in the story too, albeit briefly)

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    23 Jan 2025

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    No one notices at first.

    Athena brushes off her father's punishment, goes to Odysseus, oversees their long-awaited reunion. Stays in their house after- because it's not like they'll be around forever, after all. And she can do her work just as well from down here- there's no need, to be honest, to go back to Mount Olympus. Anyone who needs her comes to Ithaka, and she's content, for the first time in a very, very long time.

    And then one day Odysseus comes across her seizing on the floor.  

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