“If Theseus has the world believing his wife and child were abducted by a god, then can’t his wife simply tell the world otherwise?” asked Ilias. “No,” Ariadne said sharply. “Unless Theseus is subdued or dead, you cannot ask that of her. It is too dangerous.” “Do you not trust us to protect her?” Aphrodite asked. “Forgive me, but you all pointed out how Theseus is just as much of a threat to you as he is to everyone,” Ariadne said. “So no.” “Yet you have no trouble leeching off our kindness and accepting our protection.” “Aphrodite,” Dionysus warned as Hephaestus loomed behind the Goddess of
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