"And I have missed you, as well." Zeus laughed, finding the melodic sound of her laughter quite contagious, grinning wryly as she placed the crown of flowers on his head. "I'm sure I'm quite a sight. But what to wear with it..." he joked. "Seriously, though, we should have a summer ball, if it would please you, sister," he said.
And in truth, the time was likely not ideal for celebrations, far from ripe for such things when other matters were pressing, but around her, everything else seemed so far away, distant and fleeting and unimportant. He would have been a fool not to have noticed that she looked, there among the trees and flowers and fronds, clad in chartreuse, quite stunning.