"Wait! How did he know your name? Who was he? Do we know him?" Both fired at Pietho as she groaned.

"Yeah! You know him . I know him. Seriously only one idiot visits every casino wearing sandals that flutter." She raised her eyes.

"Who?" Both wondered.

"Seriously! Winged sandals? Ring any bells." She glared.

"Oh right! You are talking about Hermes." Asteria facepalmed herself realising.

"Yes! Finally." Pietho sighed.

[HERMES IS ONE OF OLYMPIAN GODS WHO IS GOD OF SPEED AND THUD WEARS WINGED SANDALS FOR FASTER SPEED SINCE THEY GRANT HIM THE ABILITY TO WALK OR RUN ON AIR TOO.]

"I don't know about him being an idiot. He was pretty nice when he came asking for my help during...well you know Hades kidnapped Persephone and Demeter sent him to find news about her precious daughter." Selene mumbled.

"Oh really! Did you guys fling or something?" Pietho chuckled.

"Don't be silly. He just arrived there so that I can tell him that my brother Helios is much busy seeing world than me." Selene scoffed.

"Anyway now don't interrupt my flashbacks." Pietho warned them.

Flashback

Pietho sat on a chair beside one board and looked at Hermes who was watching her interestingly not sure what she was planning to do.

"Give me high chair." Pietho smiled forwarding a stack of notes to which the card keeper grinned and gave her cards.

Hermes had a reason for visiting evey casino . It was impossible to defeat him. He was master of trickery and this art. He was literally a god of this. But Pietho was intent on winning this time. Everytime she went to any new casino ,Hermes would already be there and always win and that was like another level of annoying.  She knew that Hermes since he is a god wouldn't be affected by her powers, so she did the next better thing she could. When she lost to Hermes, she spread her aura by which the card keeper and manager proclaimed her winner.  She had never tried this before in fear of that she may expose her kind and well! you know humans would again come running to them asking for favours or sacrificing something that they don' t even like.

When after winning, Pietho started to walk away, Hermes stopped her.

"What?" She aske innocently like nothing had happened.

"You used your powers" He said but not in a very questioning manner.

"Yes! and so do you in every match. Hurts a bit. Right." She said sarcastically turning away.

"Listen Pietho! i use it very secretively  and obliviously. I don't use so openly and as something which would seem later illogical to mortals later." He stood in front  of her.

"Fine ! i am sorry. Now why are you getting so hasty and tasy because of that?" She asked puzzled.

"Well for one thing: i never lost a card game." He sighed.

"Aw! poor sod." She sassed.

"Just be careful." He shook his head at her reaction and with a spark rising in his eye was gone with smell of  electric shock fuming out.

"Ugh! i still hate when he does that." She waved the smoke away.

 After winning at casino, Pietho again started drinking and all. When she was walking in street being hungover, she saw that there was a photo of her cousine Asteria in some newspaper clipping which was from Russia.

"Looks like I gotta go there." She slurred as someone caught her.

Now

"And then Selene caught me as she you know could see verything being in sky and here we are." Pietho finished.

"Wow! That is good backstory I guess." Asteria shrugged.

"You guess? I know it." Selene hit Pietho playfully.

"So what  now? Three immortal cousins ae just gonna share their stories and lives over a cupe of cappuccino." Asteria questioned.

"Maybe. Maybe not." Selene winked at Pietho as if to gesture something. Pietho nodded her head.

"Ok! what are you guys winking about?" Asteria asked puzzled as suddenly the vision blackened and she fell unconscious.

"Do you think she will be mad?" Pietho asked Selene after quiet a long time (1 day)

"Well! we did knock her out and brought here back forcibly so.."She trailed off.

"Yup! she is gonna be mad. But she will get over it. This is the only place where we should stay for a while now until things settle. After all there is a war coming and i am really not comfortable with idea that my younger sister would be out there alone in crowd where all of them will be moving." She shrugged as she woke up Asteria.

"What the..? i am gonna so .." She began and stopped seeing where she was.

"No! I don't wanna come back so soon." She whined.

"Please! You would be safe here." Selene begged.

"What makes you think that all gods won't just come here first? To attack the heart of us? Why do you think that Greece will be left untouched." She glared as they looked at each other nervously.

"Ok! What are you not telling me?" Asteria asked afraid of what they had done.

"Greece doesn't exist anymore in this world." Pietho exhaled with deep breath and Asteria gasped trundling into memory lane.

Amicis vale ! Keep thy self posted for next chapter.