<strong>Chloe: Flashback time... (Flash front later if you ask nicely, dear!)</strong><br/><hr/><br/>Chloe had never really understood how she could do what she could do. The only person it never worked on was her dad, who seemed to have some sort of parental immunity. Any one else though... She could make a suggestion and it was as if the idea became lodged in the person's brain. The next thing they knew they were doing something really stupid for her amusement, and wondering why they were doing it.<br/><br/>Her uncanny ability had almost earned her a reputation as a bully at school. She could just ask someone for their lunch money and it was given to her. But she quickly learned that this was frowned upon by staff, and her father who tried to teach her right from wrong became very angry when he learned what she was doing. So she stopped. She tried to use the ability to do good things - suggest that a big kid stop picking on a smaller kid, for example. That one had nearly earned her a beating and would have if she hadn't quickly suggested the bully start hitting himself.<br/><br/>So she had learned to use her talent sparingly. It was not a nice talent, she had decided.<br/><br/>This led her, now, to the obvious conclusion... "Abigale?" She asked softly "Not all gods and goddesses are nice, are they? In fact, some are actually..." She paused, trying to think of a diplomatic way of putting it, seeing as the gods and goddesses in question appeared to be real, and easily offended judging by Abby's demeanour at some of Chloe's words so far... " Uh, Unfriendly? Look, what if I'm the daughter of a ... uh ... less than jolly type of goddess... Do I really<em>want</em>to find out who she is? I mean... Uh... Not to put too fine a point on it but the folks at the stone table there? They don't look too happy about it!" She shrugged. Greek mythology did not have a devil<em>per se</em>, but Hades, the god of the underworld, was not someone she wanted as her father. Equally, she could be quite happy if she learned that the queen of the gods was nothing more than a distant great aunt.