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Aphrodite had already disappeared and was now walking along a human street. Time to begin playing with mortals.

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Aphrodtie had a friendly relationship with Alis, but she was not really in the mood for more literature discussions. She disappeared and re-appeared at a middle-school dance, where a 13-year-old girl was battling with confusion over her own beginnings into being a teenager and general drama. What Aphrodite was looking at was the boy moping after her. Friendship-catches-fire thing with children. So sweet. Aphrodite shifted the battling emotions a little bit, and the girl suddenly turned around to the boy with a different expression on her face. "Cute." said Aphrodite, "but remember to keep it PG. Until you're a little older." The music was so loud no-one heard her comment. She waved her hand, then disappeared again. Now off to the forges.

Athena finished up reading her book and sighed as she got up and walked outside. She was annoyed at the world in general today, especially at Aphrodite. Except, she hadn't ran into Aphrodite today. Also, she was a bit annoyed at her usually favorite niece Alis, or rather, the English class that was bothering her so much. Otherwise, Alis would not be hanging around her, just begging to get herself into trouble with Aunt Artemis by jumping up and down singing "Conjunctions! Conjunctions!" Speaking of Artemis, there she was, a few feet away. Athena went over to talk.

((In case anybody got confused, I'm playing both Athena and Alis. You can play two characters also, if you ask politely!))

Athena's face turned into a dangerously pleasant smile. "And I suppose you would be such a wonderful aunt and teach her? You do love her so much." Athena rolled her eyes and her face turned into sarcastic mode, and then into annoyed mode. "Mostly I'm annoyed at Aphrodite today. Even though I haven't seen her lately. When I last saw her, she was meddling with some middle schoolers that I liked. They were so intelligent, and so very good at debate club until Aphrodite made them go all goo-goo when they saw their boyfriend in the audience. Anyway, that's the story behind that grudge. Oh, and I think Apollo's finished up his bluegrass concert. I actually liked it, for once, though I preferred back a couple hundred years when he was on his Vivaldi kick."

"I do know how to hunt!" Athena cried indignantly. "But I suppose that's besides the point. Apollo went that way" --Athena flung her arm to the left carelessly--"so now you can stop insulting me and Alis. Nobody likes rules, especially not in the way you're supposed to speak!" She walked off in a huff.

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Aphrodite had heard Athene's complaints about people she meddled with before. Oh, pooey, she thought about it. No one can all be pleased at the same time. It's so complicated. And then she'd give up and go indulge a silly whim.

Alis's face broke out into a grin. "Nicely phased poetry? Oh my Zeus! Where? Good poetry is so hard to find these days! It's a love poem, isn't it? Love poems are so pretty, especially sonnets. You've probably read Shakespeare, but he has the best sonnets! Ever! Such wonderful adjectives..." The rambling continued.

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Aphrodite gleefully giggled at Alis's excitement. "Calm down!" she cried, "And of course it was love poetry! What other good kind is there?" She dreamily twirled around. "It was delightful. Hung in the window of a mortal, bless his heart I think he wrote it himself! It was so romantic," she said dramatically as she held her arms aloft in a ballerina pose.