"Lady, you need to move ahead. Is something wrong?"

I looked at Hermes. 'Does this means this place was known to me before? Oh! Hermes is not smiling anymore. He looks good with a smile.' I smiled at him and walked forward and it smiled too. "You're gonna love it here. We have everything you can ever think of. That is if Zeus thinks you can live here but no worries he won't refuse you, you're so pretty and innocent."

I looked around. There was this same music I have always heard in my dreams, it make me want to go to sleep again. The sunlight washed all over with a golden glow and birds cooed flying and hopping. There were flowers peeking from under the grass, it was so soft. a beautiful scent fogged everything and there was an unexplained sense of peace and calmness. I left Hermes and twirled looking at everything.

"Oh Hermes, everything is so beautiful here"

Walking close to me, it kept its hand on my back where my dress just hung and lead me forward, "It just got better with you here, milady!" I felt my cheeks getting hotter and Hermes just let out that ha ha with a louder note to it.

We walked a path covered by some big grey things, that was smooth and I saw many more creatures. Some like Hermes with short hair and some like fates. They were all looking at me. Some stopped and kept looking, I kept smiling at all of them. They wore cloth of different colors and had their hair different from each other. I looked at Hermes and he said, "They are the nymphs. They live here and help the gods." We stopped in front of a huge brown door. It seemed to be made of the same thing as trees but it had a lot of swirls and flowers on it, all brown. It seemed like the entrance to the palace, which seemed even more huge now that I was standing on its door. I had to tilt my head completely back to see the top of it. There were two nymphs on the gate with big long things, they kept looking at me like everyone so I smiled again.

"See now guards! It's me, Hermes, open up the gates" it said with its ha ha and added, "it's never good to keep a lady waiting"

They nodded, their faces red and the door open. Hermes lead me in and the soft faint music became clearer and sweeter inside. The walls were reflecting off the light and shone as I had never seen anything before. They had a lot of long white things standing between the white ground and the white thing over my head. It had beautiful swirls and flowers and creatures too.

"Let's go to the Courtroom, everyone will be there," Hermes said moving forward. It didn't seem to be fascinated by all of the beauty, instead, it kept looking at me.

I moved down a long way with walls that had the same swirls and things. There were Nymphs too but they were smiling and looking at me, except sometimes, but they looked down when I see them. This time all of them had the same cloth and hair. We arrived at another entrance and there were again two nymphs standing with the same cloth-like earlier one. This time there was no door but a piece of cloth, pale golden and sparkling hung covering the room. I could hear a lot of voices coming from inside. There was a man laughing and a woman telling them something and lots of chatter I couldn't understand.

"Ready, lady?" Hermes held my hand and asked. I nodded with a deep breath.

I heard the nymphs announcing the arrival of Hermes the messenger god of thieves and travelers and along with a list of things. We stepped inside a beautiful, minimalist room. It had a confident, serious air to it. Ahead of me was a long trail, on either side of each were beautiful seats, 5 on one side and 4 on the other, all of them adorned with sparkling and shiny things, and sitting on them were equally beautiful people, each one more magnificent than the last. A man from first had a big long golden thing with three pointed ends. Looking at him reminded me of the shells and water. I felt all of them staring at me, but I couldn't smile I was intimidated by what was in front of me.

"Wishes to the highness," Hermes said in a smooth tone unlike his smiley one and bowed down. "Your Majesty, this is the woman Fates talked about"

I saw a man, old yet intimidatingly handsome, looking down at me. He had white hair with little grey over his face and head and he wore a golden tiara but it wasn't like my flower one. it was bigger and grand with blue sparkling stones on it. His gaze was so powerful and assertive, I moved my eyes down and kept standing, I could feel his stare all over me and it didn't feel nice, none of theirs did. Beside him was a woman, equally magnificent sitting on a throne, with her long green-blue cloth flowing down,she too wore a tiara of gold with green tiny stones. They seemed to have chairs a little higher than the others and more sophisticated. She looked at me with a strange emotion. I didn't understand so I kept looking down.

"Indeed I have never seen anything more beautiful than her in my entire life" the old man said, and added after receiving a glare from the woman beside, "but yet she couldn't match my Hera" and smiled.

"Who are you, young lady?" The woman said. Her voice was calm and motherly, but had a powerful edge to it.

I kept looking down, trying to form words but everything was so grand and new to me. I felt out of place, they were all looking at me in a way it felt like they're eyes were crawling on me. All of a sudden the suffocation shell felt better than the suffocation here.

"I ..." just opened my mouth when Hermes interrupted, "Apologies to interrupt Her Royal Highness, May I say something on behalf of this lady?"

"She is as naive as a new born, My goddess," Hermes spoke after a nod from the woman, " She does not know of her identity, if she had any to begin with"

This was followed by quizzical nods from everyone, and Hermes continued, "simply stating, she a baby born like an adult" he bowed and shifted a bit behind me.

"So, no one knows who you are, or where you came from?" Zeus kept his hand on his chin and looked at my face, and i smiled. Like other's he turned red too.

"Ahem, father" a voice turned Zeus out of his thoughts. I turned to look at the owner of a voice so confident and lyrical, and came to face a tall elegant lady, standing up in front of her chair. She had an owl perched on her shoulder and straight black hair a little below her shoulders. She wore a golden thing on her head but it was not like the tiaras, it covered her head completely and her shoulder were padded with the same golden thing. Her cloth was white and red with the golden thing covering her chest.

"I think she is unknown to everything here. As Hermes said, she is a naive as a baby but i sense from her a strong aura of intelligence and cleverness. I can teach her all the basic things, maybe then we can figure out something." she finished with a confident pause and looked at the king. Her cloth had a cut on the side through which her legs were slightly visible, it was not like mine, it looked strong and scarred.

"You're right, Athena. I allow you to do what you feel is right." Zeus said with a nod and straightened up as the tall lady, which I think is called Athena came near me. She too held a tall object with a pointed tip that shone in light.

"That is a spear, Lady of Cyprus." she smiled and I widened my eyes. I felt a comforting energy with her so i spoke, for the first time in the room.

"How do you know that?" and heard everyone sighed around us.

"Her voice can lure anyone to sleep!"

I heard someone whisper, the lady smiled and replied, "I can read thoughts, although I don't use that power often, It feels nosy." She raised up her hand and touched my forehead.

I felt light and lifted. A soft music surrounded me and my went shifted right to Athena's eyes. They were so gray and intelligent, like they knew everything in this world, they felt so calm and soothing like my shell, i could sleep like that.