"I didn't push Lucia when I first awoke because I wanted to figure it all out. Why, how, where. She didn't deal with it well, her religion has brainwashed her." Ma'at smoothed her thumb along the skin of his hand. It was an absent gesture, soothing. In times past she would use touch to give balance to some, the calming gesture was as much for herself as it was for anyone else. "And we are the only three Egyptians here, now?" She had spent the last 6 years since being awakened trying to figure out what had happened. "The only question I cannot figure out is who. Who was stronger than us and put us here, now?"
"I won't push it, it hurts if I do." She hated that in the past she could have easily fixed it, without her power she felt angrier and frustrated. "We still have some powers and together we are stronger than alone."
She tried to shake off the feeling of helplessness, laughing at him. "Lucia will pout and threaten but in the end she will learn to like these things. It is healthy and fun, she is too serious to be so young." Ma'at snorted at Thoth's concept of balance. "You always did have your own interpretation of balance. Is he disagreeing with you even now? He and Lucia are likely having the same thoughts of us right now."
"I do not understand how they cannot see the advantages of more than one partner. Limiting yourself to one lover is like ignoring the other parts of yourself that could be powerful." Ma'at had never begrudged the other goddesses. Thoth was hers in certain ways that he was not theirs and vice versa, it was the way of the universe. She knew the mortal's hearts and their actions but she never claimed to understand any of them. Not then and certainly not now. "You could deny it if you liked, it wouldn't prevent it." She had loosened her hold on Lucia, the mortal soul was alternating between questioning her and berating her. "Hush." She said, her voice quiet as she pulled the cup of coffee toward her. "Impatient mortals."