Translated Hieroglyphics from broken pots found in Egypt:

Once, when I was young I asked my mother where I came from. She told me I was a wild child from the mountains, having fallen from the kingdom of Zeus in the sky. If she only knew how close she was to the truth. Too bad I was not from the heavens like him. We would have been better matched if it were so. Why must I constantly dwell on this? We are NOT together. It is an impossibility. My destiny is guided by the hands of those damnable Fates. I was not of the heaven. No, I had to come from somewhere else...

Child of a Different God

Chapter 2: Annoying Boy

by: pOtHeAd

The calmness of sunrise is shattered by a loud happy shout.

"Mama! Mama!" a little girl shouts as she races around the house.

"Where are you Mama?"

Helen is excited today because her mother, Hitte, has given her permission to accompany her brother, Charon, while he tended to the sheep around the fields near the forest. She wakes her brother up after repeatedly tugging on his blankets. He teases her by refusing to stand up from bed and even giving excuses that he did not feel well. Then when she is just about to cry, she hears him laugh from under the pillow and she is scooped up into his arms where he begins to tickle her hand tells her that she could not take a joke and that he would not stop tickling her unless she promised not to cry.

After breakfast, Charon prepares the flock while his mother talks to Helen.

"Take care of yourself dear. Do not wander too far from your brother and the flock. Be good and most especially, remember that you are not supposed to talk to strangers."

Ah! The most unfortunate line 'Do not talk to strangers'. Helen of course did not heed her mother's advice and wandered far from the flock into the forest. Here she is approached by a huge serpent who does not seem to want to harm her but instead slithers beside her as she walks around the woods. After a while she gets tired and decides to take a nap in a small clearing.

She is awakened by some noise and she realizes that the snake is not with her anymore. Suddenly, a little boy with a wooden sword jumps out from a nearby bush.

"Ho! I got you cornered now you silly goose!" shouts the boy waving his wooden sword around as if preparing to attack his enemy.

"Who are you calling a silly goose, stupid boy from the bush?" shouts the short tempered Helen.

"Well you of course! Who else could I be talking to?"

"Why you...!"

"What are you doing here anyway? I've never seen you here before"

"Well, I kinda wandered away from the flock.."

"There is a flock of silly geese around here?!"

"I am NOT a SILLY GOOSE!"

"Whatever"

"Anyway, as I was saying, I got bored watching my brother tending to our flock of _sheep_..."

"Your brother is a sheep?"

"NO! My brother was taking care of the sheep.."

"How can a goose be related to sheep?"

"I am NOT a GOOSE! How slow can you get?! Who are you anyway?"

"Can't tell. My mother told me never to talk to strangers."

"ARGH!"

Helen throws her little arms up in defeat and starts to walk away from the boy.

"Hey! Where are you going?"

"Away from you, of course!" mutters a very frustrated Helen.

"Can I go with you?" says the boy who starts to run after her.

"No"

"Why not?"

"Coz I don't like you."

"Why not"

"Coz you're annoying."

"I am not annoying!"

"See?"

"Hey!"

Helen walks faster. The boy walks faster to catch up with her. They go deeper into the forest without noticing it.