Downstairs was rather more successful. Prometheus was very taken with Hestia's wood stove. Their house was the only one that had a real fire in it. Hestia had insisted. She said she liked to watch the living flames.
"So you trap the fire in here? And how does it breathe?" Athena opened the door to show him how you loaded the stove with wood and then opened the little drawer underneath to collect the ash. "And you can open these things here to get a better draught or to close it down."
"And is it hot enough?"
"Yeah, the whole thing heats up so it keeps the room warm for hours after the fire has gone out."
Prometheus was horrified. "You let the fire go out?"
Athena suddenly had the feeling she was on dodgy ground here. She knew Prometheus was the bearer of fire and it had a special me
