First Day (01)

Where do you look for Knox? He isn't out in the main area of the club.

After saying goodbye to Mom, I slowly make my way through the room, looking for Knox. I text him back:
Absolutely. Where are you?

But in case he doesn't see the text right away, I keep looking for him, heading back - again - to the hot tub to see if he might be there. He does have some water powers after all.

Knox texts back:
In my office. Join me and we can go home together.

I sigh softly about missing out on the hot tub, but the idea of meeting up with Knox in his office is appealing enough that I immediately veer off in that direction.

On my way

While I head over, I reread his text. We can go home together. Home. Does he mean back to his apartment? What used to be our home? Gods, I hope so. I'd like to pretend it's ours again, even if it's just for a little while.

I jump a little when Galinthias speaks up. This is going to take some getting used to.

I frown at her warning. "All Dionysus cares about is making sure my mom is happy and impressed, and she's obviously enjoying her time here already. Everyone's getting along. What could go wrong?" I push the memory of the scorched mark on the floor where I burned in this very building at a not-so-dissimilar party myself after everything seemed to be going well.

I scowl a bit at Galinthias putting words to my own memories about the last party here. "I do want him to work here," I answer quickly. "It's safer than all that other stuff, of course. But...he's the god of Doors. We can literally get back here from anywhere in like two seconds if something goes wrong."

I hesitate, my hand on the office door handle and jaw tight as Galinthias lists off things that probably aren't even going to happen. A gas leak? Really?

But then she calls out my earlier activities and my scowl deepens. "Just because the only place you're getting any is from a den of frelling ferrets doesn't mean you have the right to slut shame me," I hiss. "Now get off of me and leave me alone."

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