This news wasn't something anyone but Athena didn't know, but there was still not a word spoken now that their mother had reached the same conclusion they had. If anything, it cemented the thoughts in all of their minds as to the outcome they had all foreseen.
"Father... would never be that... reckless...." Athena said, almost as though she was trying to convince herself of something she didn't believe, or didn't want to believe.
