After all this time, I never thought we'd be here. Who: Cronus (usurped_usurper) and Zeus (rules_them_all) What: Long-overdue meeting. Where: NYU campus When: Monday after 4pm. Warnings: The daddy issues. They run in the family, generation after generation after generation after generation after- you get the point.
'Greek Mythology in Contemporary Culture'. That was the title on the fliers pinned on the cork board outside the lecture hall. The two-hour seminar went on for almost an extra hour before the enthusiasts filed out of the room, still discussing amongst themselves the ideas Cronus had implanted within them. Young mortals tended to be rather impressionable like that.
These lectures rarely ever benefited Cronus. Like the stories, his focus was inevitably placed on the Olympians. But he didn't mind - if he thought it would change anything, he wouldn't stand up here and talk about them.
Besides, some of them looked like they could use the boost of energy.
Metal scraping against wood filled in the silence as small wood chips fell into the bin. Cronus was the only one left, sitting at the front of the lecture hall, a small knife in hand and a lump of wood in the other. He had aged his features on purpose to be Gene Attis, the facade of a prolific Classics professor everyone knew, but now that no one was here, there was no need to hide his true face.
He had made her one lion, but she had more than one. Pairs also created balance. Fierce, silent, loyal, ruthless, lazy, bold...