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The owl had been following her around for a few months now, forcing her to sleep, eat and socialise, all things she did not need to do, no thank you.
She woke up one morning, the owl suspiciously missing until she heard a knock on the door. “Athena?” Hera’s voice drifted in, “are you there?”
“Come in” Athena responded, too tired to actually get up, had she really had a full night sleep?
She heard the door open and Hera entered, “Athena darling, where are you?” The god queens voice echoed through her domain.
“In here” Oh gods her voice sounded weak, what was happening.
Her door cracked open and Hera entered, with Pallas on her shoulder, “Oh baby” suddenly Hera was sat next to her, her cool hand pressed to her forehead, “your burning up, do you think you could tell your owl to go get Apollo?”
She felt herself shake her head slightly, murmuring “not my owl”
“fine,” Hera changed tack immediately “as this owl is one of your sacred animals can you ask her to go and get Apollo”
“Pallas can you listen to Hera” Gods she sounded so pathetic, why would Hera even come see her, let alone stay once she saw how useless she was. She heard Hera talking to the owl, and then saw the owl fly out the window.
“You can sleep you know” Hera was stroking her hair now.
“No- work” She found her body pushing herself into a sitting position before Heras hand pushed her back down.
“No Athena you need to rest, you have a fever” before she could protest her eyes fluttered shut.