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I laughed and shook my head. "Anyway, I'd been trying to be nice and positive. If you've been turned human multiple times before and you've always eventually been turned back into a god, why would this time be any different?"

"That's what I'm trying to strive not to find out. I just have to serve my sentence and take my place back on Olympus."

"And, if you fail at doing whatever you're supposed to do, you'll stay human, which isn't too bad," I told him with a straight face, not letting on that I was kidding.

"You're kidding, right? Being human is the worse! You mortals get damaged very easily and you have to do things to survive like sleep and eat. It's very time consuming and boring! And worse of all, mortals get acne and flab! How do you stand it? It takes away from my otherwise very charming and natural good looks!"

"That may be true, but we humans, with our short lifespans, live our lives to the fullest. We've got a short time to enjoy our lives, unlike you gods who can waste your time without a care, we keep ourselves busy with all sorts of things," I replied. "And if you think about it, going on day by day knowing that one day you're inevitably going to die eventually, humans are very strong." I paused. "Plus we know how to come back up after getting damaged."

"But flab! How do you deal with that?"

I rolled my eyes. "You work out an eventually you get muscle instead."

"Ugh. Everything is a waste of time. When I was a god, I could change my appearance at will!"

The words "everything is a waste of time" really hit a nerve. I lowered my eyebrows and muttered, "You may have been a god before, but from the way you're acting all you're showing me is that humans are much stronger than gods."

I crossed my arms again. "What do you mean?"

"You're stranding here complaining like a child. Maybe you were once high and mighty, so what. You aren't now. If you don't like that then maybe you should put in a little effort and change that instead of saying how pathetic we are. At least we understand how to get something you have to work for it," I snapped. "Life isn't meant to be easy. If you're working towards something than nothing you do is a waste of time."

I hated to admit it, but he was right. I uncrossed my arms.

"You done complaining and saying how inferior humans are to gods?"

"Maybe. I'll only do it on bad days."

I shrugged to myself. Good enough.

I looked around. "So, did Olivia tell you what you're doing in the woods?"

"Not a word, because someone," I glared over at Olivia, "doesn't like repeating herself."

"Darn. I was hoping it'd be something to help me get my memory back."

I shrugged. "Sorry. I don't even know why I'm in this world, yet she wont say anything other than 'prophesy.'"

"It's a prophecy Apollo."

"See?" I almost yelled.

"I don't even know if I trust it."

"I was the god of prophecies! As well as archery, the sun, healing, music, and protectors of young men."

"I still don't know how much I trust a grove of trees."

Alasitar: "Excuse me, what?"