By dinner, Sophie had dropped by the forges to pick up her weapon.
Instead of coating the spear tip with hydra blood, Leo had given Sophie a small bottle of purplish liquid telling her that "You should put that on when you have reasonable control of the spear. That stuff is nasty."
After dropping the spear off at her cabin, Sophie went to dinner.
After feasting on grilled cheese and ginger ale, she decided to go to bed early; she wanted as much time to ask her questions as possible.
That night, she fell to sleep early. She had a feeling that her counterpart had something to do with it.
When she reached the throne-room she wasn't even surprised about it anymore.
As usual, the grey-eyed-goddess was sitting on her throne.
This time though, there were two other people in the room as well.
One looked like a twelve year old with auburn hair and silver eyes. Sophie immediately recognized her as Artemis. She had the same no nonsense look as her counterpart.
The other had a golden smile and hair. Apollo defiantly, both him and his counter in Sophie's opinion, looked a bit stupid (don't tell either that, neither Sophie or I would want to be shot by golden arrows).
When she appeared in the room, all three deities turned to her. Athena was the first to speak. "Hello Sophie, good to see you're here. I would introduce my half siblings but, I think that you already know who they are so there's no need.
After Sophie nodded to her counterpart, she started to study the twins.
Artemis was currently sitting on her throne staring at her like she was accessing a threat. She didn't seem that impressed of her reincarnate status.
Apollo, who was currently standing behind his sister's throne on the other hand, was smiling at Sophie while saying. "Nice to meet you Sophie, long time no see, well for me."
"What did you mean for you?" She got it that they did see each other when she was Athena but, wait a moment, she was in another universe at the time she got confused.
"My brother is referring to the fact that we can see our counterparts in certain parts of their lives. How else can Athena know about you?"
"Wait your spying on us?"
This time it was Athena who did the answering. "Not all of the time," Sophie noticed that she didn't bother to make any excuses. "I can really only see you when you're in danger of some sort. For example, the birds or, your memory loss."
"How is my memory loss dangerous?" She got it that it was confusing but dangerous, not really.
"Yesterday was the first time that anyone had to defend you from a monster attack."
Sophie scratched her arm, not wanting to relive the metal bird. Former war goddess or not, it was scary.
"Fine, but what are those two doing here?" She was referring to the twins, even if their counterparts were her friends, she couldn't help but feel uneasy around the pair.
"My little sis and I are here because we saw you in our counterpart's minds and, were curious."
Just as Artemis was about to argue with her brother, Athena hurriedly started speaking. "I let them come meet you if they didn't tell anyone about you. Now, I understand that you have questions?"
"Umm, oh yeah…. About the monster attack, Diana said something about my sent being stronger than it should. What's that about?"
Artemis stared at her. "My counterpart was referring to the fact that half bloods have a sent around them that attracts monsters. Even though in your dimension your powers faded away a long time ago, here you have the power level of demi gods. The leading theory about that is that since you were introduced to this world, your sent got stronger."
"Actually, it's thanks to the monster that we found you. Both Artemis and I knew what was happening from the bird attack on." Apollo looked oddly serous for some reason.
Sophie nodded "Makes sense, so what now? We wait for me to get eaten by some monster?"
Athena sighed. "No, Artemis and Apollo's counterparts will do for now but, you will need to get some training yourself."
"The camp's doing that alreay." She didn't mention how badly the attempts to teach her weaponry had gone."
"Yes, I saw your efforts. Keep working on it." Attempt failed.
Before she was sent back to wherever, Sophie asked one more question. "Do your counterparts know about you?"
"What makes you think they don't? Apollo was looking at different directions. Not meeting Sophie's eyes.
"When I explained how I suddenly knew that I was a reincarnate, I was about to explain that she," she nodded towards Athena, "told me but, when I was about to, I got the feeling that I shouldn't."
Athena answered straight away. "No they don't. None of the gods trust their counterparts not to cause serious damage to both worlds."
"Why did you tell me?"
"Because, I could tell that you needed help. No matter what other people think, I'm not cruel. Anyways, you are the least likely of all of them to mess something up."
A faint smile flickered on Artemis face. "I'd take offence to that but, I can acknowledge that it is true."
Just then, the faint sound of footsteps could be heard just outside the door.
"Looks like a meeting is going to start, I think that it's time for you to go."
Before someone could say, moustaches, Sophie could feel herself going away from the council room. Wondering how often she would make this trip.
I decided that it was about time that some other gods got introduced. Hope you like them.