Equipped with plated armor, shield, spear, and plumed helmet, she gazed at her father with eyes of a matchless and wonderful grey. A grey that seemed to radiate one quality above all others—infinite wisdom. From one of the pines that fringed the shoreline an owl flew out and perched on the shining she-warrior’s shoulder. From the dunes an emerald-and-amethyst snake slid forward and coiled itself about her feet. With a slightly unpleasant slurping sound Zeus’s head closed up its wound and healed itself. It was clear at once to all present that this new goddess was endowed with levels of power
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