<div style="text-align: justify;">Zeus sighed when he heard two voices arguing. As he knew each of his children by voice, he knew exactly who each voice belonged to. Why couldn't Apollo take things seriously every now and then? Shaking his head, Zeus nodded when Apollo, sprawled on the ground, greeted him.<br/><br/>"Go find yourself a seat, Apollo", Zeus replied, trying to keep his temper in check.<br/><br/>The two other goddesses watched the scene, Aphrodite looking amused, and Athena, shaking her head. <br/><br/>When Apollo sat next to her, Aphrodite flashed a big smile, making a face at looking at Hephaestus. She had no idea why she had to be stuck with him.<br/><br/>"And you, as usual, making a grand entrance", she joked, laughing softly before answering her brother's question. "I have no idea, to be honest. Maybe they have vanished into thin air, or abandoned Olympus", she suggested.<br/><br/>Athena, who had been quiet throughout all of this, only spoke up when Persephone showed up. She was fond of all of her siblings, though her preference went to the more discreet and quietest ones. "I am happy to see you", she whispered softly as Persephone found her place.<br/><br/>When Hera finally arrived, Athena nodded to her. "Mother", she greeted respecftully. Of course, Hera was not her mother, but she felt that she had gotten a smaller part of the goddesse's hatred, probably due to not being the fruit of yet another of her father's women. And as she didn't have a mother, she called Hera that, at least from her lips out.<br/><br/>As his wife sat next to him, Zeus looked at her in a way that made clear her words had not pleased him at all. "I know", he murmured through his teeth.<br/><br/>After a moment to collect himself, Zeus finally spoke up. If other would not come, it was on them.<br/><br/>"Wife and children - I have gathered you here because things are not good. I believe you have noticed it already. Humanity is losing faith. Very few, even in Greece, believe and worship us anymore. We need to secure our position, before we are too weak to keep our own existence. Does any of you have any suggestion as to how we can remedy this before it is too late?".<br/><br/>Athena spoke very quietly, in her usual matter-of-fact intonation.<br/><br/>"We can not", she stated firmly. "We can not turn back the clock, or make the sands of time go back up the hourglass. Humanity is evolving, and with this evolution, they stop trusting old beliefs, and old gods, such as we are".<br/><br/>After her words, Athena fell silent, waiting for someone else to say something.</div>