Eris avoided her mother's piercing gaze as she slowly walked towards her cell, she pulled her chair and made sure to sit far away from the woman's reach.
"What took you so long?" Hera asked her daughter, "the only task I gave you was to tell the god of the sea, Poseidon, to come and meet me. And yet I've been waiting here for days without any feedback whatsoever."
"I delivered your message," Eris muttered under her breath.
"Well? What did he say?!"
Eris winced at the tone of her mother's voice, this is exactly why she had avoided coming here the past few days because she knew exactly how her mother would react.
"He said he wouldn't come," Eris responded.
"Gods Eris, what did you say to him?l"
