The smirk was back. A finger traced her jaw. "If you are Aphrodite, I've been in your ... temple plenty of times. Access has most definitely been granted already."
But this wasn't about that. He stepped away from her, broke the physical connection between them, and gestured to the world around them. "My temple wasn't right. It was mine, but it was... changed. Different, in small ways. I want to know if yours is the same. And I want to see if you are indeed the goddess that you claim to be. How simply you could convince me, by simply showing me inside."
Everyone knew the sense of a deity in their seat of power. There was nothing else quite like it. And if Aphrodite was indeed standing in front of him, then they had a very big problem indeed.