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[color=ea7e5d]"What a disaster,"[/color] Athena muttered after Hati informed her of her new-appointed duties, as well as other troubling bits of information.

No, not a disaster. A disaster would be if those two death children, Zagreus and Macaria, Athena's cousins, didn't lay as still as the mortal dead did but somehow rose from their position in some crude prank only those belonging to the Realm of Death would be amused by. It would be in poor taste, but everyone who stood around -- at least those who weren't petrified in their place or felt unphased due to them not having any personal attachment -- would have eventually moved past the tasteless prank.

But that's not what happened. No, the Goddess of Wisdom understood what happened and that struck fear that only her father, when he was feeling it, was capable of. The kind of fear that might make a few of the deities present feel. It was the first time since when? Since the fall, perhaps, that even Athena felt as helpless as a mortal. She understood what this meant. If someone like those two, Zagreus and Macaria, could be slain like regular mortals, did that mean the rest of them could be?

Shrugging that moment of weakness off, she had a job to do. Athena would be the one to be appointed lead of solving this. Not that she necessarily disagreed with the choice. She wanted justice for those two who were slain. It was strange. Even though she wasn't the least bit close to her Uncle Hades nor necessarily close, the loss of life, especially if it was a meaningless loss of life, enraged her. And she [i]was[/i] in the best position to get to the bottom of this mystery. She also had the deductive skills to help illuminate the mystery, even if just slightly.

Humming, Athena's gaze went up. [color=ea7e5d]"To the roof then,"[/color] she muttered to herself.

Athena made quick work of the stairs and found herself on the roof. Ominous or not, there was an eerie chill up top. She looked down at the broken skylight and caught the glimpse of something of interest. A sword. It was an intriguing sword, the Goddess of Wisdom and Crafts (among other things) thought. [color=ea7e5d]"So this is the weapon."[/color] 

In the years that passed, the centuries she has been in the realms of Mortals, there were few things that truly made her wary. Creations upon creations from divine weaponry to  Greek armor and swords, Athena had knowledge of how weapons were crafted, knowledge of things that only two had: herself and Hephaestus. Hephaestus, who was the real brainchild behind most of the most infamous weapons that any of the Olympians had in their arsenal, but she had knowledge of them too. She consumed many tombs and textbooks that were from other religions and other pantheons. Eras past and present, but the Dáinsleif, this was one that had the least amount of information about it. Small snippets here and there, but nothing truly concrete.

But these runes. 

[color=ea7e5d]"There's no doubt about it. Norse Runes."[/color] There was a sense of dread. Even holding the sword, Athena sensed the bloodlust. Or maybe it was that she sensed something quite dark. Was it because of the death children whose very essence was darkness or was it something else?

That aside, something else stood out to the Goddess of Wisdom. Its condition. [color=ea7e5d]"An old blade like this, as old as time itself, it appeared to be in perfect condition."[/color] She found that very intriguing for a lot of reasons and many of them remained unclear to her. Many things went through her head but one that persisted was why Zegreus and Macaria? Why kill them? And why this blade? It puzzled her beyond anything had before. Not even losing out to Aphrodite puzzled her more. [color=ea7e5d]"Enlightening, but the answers I seek aren't here--"[/color]

Athena heard something and her attention was immediately drawn to the steps she had just climbed up. [color=ea7e5d]"Whoever that is, you shouldn't be up here."[/color] She didn't know who followed her, but as the steps got louder and a form revealed themselves, she blinked at them, almost surprised. [color=ea7e5d]"Anteros? What are you doing up here?"[/color][/indent][/indent][/color]