This chapter is shorter than the rest, only about 400 words. I hope you still enjoy! :P
Disclaimer: I'm no Rick Riordan.
All of a sudden, Calypso's fury was too much to keep pent-up in her chest. She was angry, angry at the angry at the gods, angry at the boy in front of her, angry at the world.
Percy, Percy, Percy.
The sparks inside her expanded, and then they exploded.
"Would you be sweet," she demanded, shaking with rage, "if the gods forgot their promise to let you go? Would you be sweet if they laughed at you by sending another hero, but a hero who looked like—like you?"
"Is that a trick question?" he asked, mildly offended.
"Di Immortales!" She'd had enough. She had to get away from this boy. Turning around, Calypso stomped into her cave.
"Hey!" She could hear the boy behind her. Washing her hands in the basin, she sighed, giving up on trying to find peace.
She scowled at him, and he cleared his throat. "So…I get why you're angry. You probably never want to see another demigod again. I guess that didn't sit right when, uh, Percy left you—"
There it was again. Percy.
"He was only the latest," she growled. "Before him, it was that pirate Drake. And before him, Odysseus." It pained her to say the names she had locked up for a thousand years.
"They were all the same!" she continued. "The gods send me the greatest heroes, the ones I cannot help but…"
"You fall in love with them," the boy finished. "And then they leave you."
She felt her chin quiver. "That is my curse. I had hoped to be free of it by now, but here I am, still stuck on Ogygia after three thousand years."
"Three thousand." A look of realisation dawned on the boy's face. "Uh, you look good for three thousand."
Normally, Calypso would be flattered at such a comment, but all she could feel was a wistful bitterness.
"And now…the worst insult of all. The gods mock me by sending you."
The boy's eyes flashed with anger. For a brief second, Calypso wondered if she had gone too far.
"Fine," he snapped. "I'll leave you alone. I'll build something myself and get off this stupid island without your help."
She sighed in defeat and shook her head.
"You don't understand, do you? The gods are laughing at both of us. If the raft will not appear, that means they've closed Ogygia. You're stuck here the same as me. You can never leave."
The boy's face closed down, and stiffly, he marched out of her cave.
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