Calliope looked at Melpomene, a thoroughly big-sister look on her face, one eyebrow raised. "Life is measured, and dramatic in the right places." She was the muse of epic poetry, after all, and her three brightest stories- Iliad, Odyssey and Aenead- were not short on drama. Tragedy and victory in equal measures. "You're not going to die. Your boy needs you." And that trumped everything, as far as she was concerned.