The following morning, Alaric and Andromeda are making love when they hear several knocks echoing throughout their bedroom. He stops moving and looks at her. "We have company." Alaric looks at the clock on the bedside table that shows it's 6:01 and slides off her and sits up. "It must be important."
"It better be." Andromeda sits up and folds her arms. "Come in." As soon as she said that, she and Alaric look at eighteen people whom Alaric doesn't know.
He kisses Andromeda's shoulders. "Who are they?"
"Aenas, Anteros, Deimos, Hermaphroditus, Himors, Hymen, Peitho, Phobos, Tyche, Adrestia, Charites, Eros, Eryx, Golgos, Harmonia, Lyrus, Priapus, Herophile, Beroe, Thalia and Rhodos. They're my brothers and sisters. What are you all doing here so early? Is anything wrong with Mother?"
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