Later Athena looked up from her pad to find Artemis bending over her.
"Did he suspect anything?"
Athena blinked and rubbed her fists in her eyes. "I don't think so."
Her father had had other things on his mind. Once he knew his daughter was safely in the camp, he strode off to deal with the myriad organisational problems this new world presented him with. But first he went to visit Hephaestus.
The engineer was now back in his own tent, sedated and comfortable, his wounds dressed and his legs supported in a sling suspended from the roof. Zeus stood looking at him for a long time. He had seen the shattered legs when he was brought into the civic hall. One of his feet had been half blown away and the other was nearly as bad. He was overwhelmed with guilt.
"Will he ever walk again?"
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