“If anyone has to survive it has to be me,” Thalia murmured. “But you have only yourself to blame for what is happening. If you had let me do what I intended to do, when I climbed to the top of the Parthenon, none of this would have happened.”
“Think how boring that would have been for you, Thalia. You cannot be at all certain they would welcome you in the next world – if there is one – and it would have upset the sightseers to find your crumpled body lying on the stones at the bottom of the Parthenon.”
He saw Thalia give a little shiver.
“Now you have decided, as I told you to do, that life is important. You therefore have to live your life in the future to the very best of your ability, even if at times it is extremely uncomfortable.”
“Like pretending to be Aphrodite, Your Grace. My
