"I don't understand these words. Other side of the sheets? Do you mean out of marriage? Why should that matter?" Hermes had asked her several times to bear him a child, and while she had turned him down, it hadn't been out of any sense of shame for being unmarried. It was simply knowing who he was and the power he would have over her. "They treated you poorly for that?"

It was a strange tale, but no different than any other hero who had learned of his secret parentage. How many of Zeus' sons had experienced the same? "So you truly are a prince by birth? Do you know anything about your father? Was he a good man?" She could only hope that he was a better person than others. Glaucus' father beat him, her father had abandoned her, and Minos was willing to keep his adopted son in a labyrinth. "You never knew your parents?"