“Tap-scrape. Tap-scrape. Tap-scraaape.”<\/p>\n
The firelight’s nervous on Hephaestus’s face as he makes tapping\/scraping gestures at his audience. Hermes has stuffed his face with popcorn; Ganymede’s so rapt that he hasn’t noticed Aphrodite’s hand halfway up his thigh.<\/p>\n
“A bit lowbrow even for him, isn’t it?” murmurs Apollo to his sister.<\/p>\n
“They can’t all be… lyrical<\/i>,” she says, grinning.<\/p>\n
“Christ,” he scowls, “I don’t know why I even talk to you about this kind of thing.”<\/p>\n
“Because,” says Hephaestus, “he’s RIGHT BEHIND YOU!”<\/p>\n
Thunder tears down the slopes of Olympus. Humanity cowers. Zeus has to go change robes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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