Oizys sat and silently listened as the Olympian goddess fell apart right next to her. She hadn't previously thought that they did such things as fall apart. They'd all - well, for the most part all of them - seemed to busy with their pride and feelings of superiority to care about anybody or anything else. But here she was, the mighty Goddess of War and Wisdom, crumbling right in front of her at the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
She waited for all of it to come out before she spoke again. Now was not the time to rail against Zeus or any of the others. But especially not him. Athena was fragile. She could be broken with a single word. For all her contempt of everything Mountain, Oizys found she didn't want to see this goddess broken.
"Wisdom isn't easy." She repeated. "You can only tell people what you know, what is right, and let them to their own devices. You can't control their actions. You can't control them. Or what they're thinking. If they're going to go against Wisdom, then it's not your fault. None of it is."
Carefully, she lifted her hand and pulled a strand of hair out of Athena's face, putting it behind her ear.
"Everybody who ignores Wisdom is a Jackass, Athena." She smiled a tiny bit. "Even me. Your father wants your council, but he also wants other things. And when your council doesn't line up with the other things he wants, he's going to ignore it. Like everybody else in the world. Him being king doesn't save him from falling to the jackassery."
Oizys sighed. "I don't think you want to see him go down the path of his father. Not really. That's a terrible path. And for all his faults, you love him, and you don't want him to have that pain. Not really. You're upset now." She felt it. Felt all of it. "Very upset. You're just focusing on this more because it's fresh and it hurts. But really think, Athena. The war is over now. Maybe it won't be that way for good, but for now it is. People didn't listen to you. They didn't listen to anybody. There were lots who got hurt. But it's over now."