My head and ears still hurt when I woke up, but my heart was in a lot of pain as I remembered how I suffered from his punishment. It was too much for something I never intended to do, but then Paul is a god, and in my lifetime of reading about them, I have never heard of a lighter punishment. I was just glad I took it instead of Jeremy, and he didn’t turn my hair into snakes.
It was still early, only past two in the morning, but I climbed down from my bed and prepared for work. If the gods sleep, I wanted to leave now without seeing or talking to him. I was not angry at Paul, but I couldn’t help feeling down in the dumps about what happened.
I took a quick shower, then pulled a turtle neck shirt and an overall jeans jumpsuit from the closet and grabbed my backpack and sneakers. I planne
