“The only problem was that Hera had also learned the truth. She turned Callisto back into a bear and then…my hands still tremble to remember it…tricked me into shooting at her. Since I never miss, she fell down dead—another woman whose life was destroyed by a man.”
“Interesting that you blame Zeus, when it was Hera who engineered the death,” said Pan. “Yes, it was wrong of Zeus to trick Callisto, but was it not more wrong for Hera to trick you into killing her? Why must the man always be the only villain in the way you tell every story?”
“Every man is not a villain—all the time, anyway,” Artemis said, though she sounded a little grudging. “Zeus did what he could to save the child, sending Hermes to rescue the yet unborn baby from the body of Callisto and give him to his own mother, Maia,
