Everyone Lies

2

"That's a beautiful name."

"Thanks."

You both stood in silence for a few moments before he said he'd leave you to it.

You look around the room, it seemed to be clean, but not the clean like it was just recently moved out of, but the clean like it hasn't been used in ages, and they had to tidy it up.

But that's okay, at least they didn't leave it a shit hole.

You make the bed and rearrange some of the furniture and you were set.

Then some bell rang.

The phone on the desk rang. "That bell means that dinner is ready." and he hung up.

"Alrighty then. Thanks for that help."

You finally find the dining room, but you were like thirty minutes late.

Brock, the really sweet one, sat you down and started scolding David.

"You know she won't know where anything is, did you think this through at all?"

"I'll have ya know Brock I did not." he twisted his hand, and his fork turned the other way before putting it in his mouth.

"Why did they even put him in charge of her? Like I could do better than that." this man is someone you've never seen.

Brock set a plate down.

"Because you an asshole Marcel."

That was Ares.

"REALLY? I didn't fucking know that."

"Guys shut up." this was also another new person to you.

That must be Craig.

He had glasses and blueish hair.

"That's Artemis?" it escaped your mouth on accident.

Everyone froze.

Marcel looked at you. "The goddess of the hunt, yeah."

Another escaped thought "More like goddess of the cunt."

All hell broke loose. Once it calmed down, like five minutes later, he solely agreed with you.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to be rude."

They waved you off. "That's what Thalia does. She's the funny one. Tomorrow will probably be your first on the job experience."

"Okay?" You had no clue what was going on. Really ever.

"Just eat okay? You'll do fine. Every Thalia does."

"Then why isn't there already one?"

The room darkened quickly. The atmosphere just dropped.

Jon set down his fork. "Well, I'll put it as clear as I can."

You await in silence. "She died. Simple. She betrayed the laws, and as soon as she regained all of her human qualities, she died. Not because of us. She was actually involved in a hit and run about two days after her release of duty."

You nod slowly.

Evan walked in humming, but slowly stopped, going out of tune very quickly. "What's up here?"

"We were talking about the old Thalia, you'd know that if you were on time."

"Well, was there one before her?" You ask.

"Yeah," Brian faltered for a moment. "She took a curse to save some folk, and now, you know, she's a tree. But she's alive."

You nod. "Seeing the past of my beloved, oh so beloved, Thalia, I think I'd like to resign before something happens to me." standing up Evan pushed you right back info your seat.