~They had looked forward to her talking. But now Sthenno felt there should be more time between a child beginning to speak and a child asking questions of every single thing she could see or not see, from the birds in the sky to the wind in her hair.~

~As far as they could tell, he did not seem to have thought about the Gorgons at all. ordered to fetch the head of one of them, he had simply set out to do so with no thought for how the Gorgon might feel about giving it up.~

~ It's true we weren't here at the beginning, but we were here at the end and which is more important?~

~So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our teeth, our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call us monsters.~

~The first flute therefore sounded exactly like what it was.
The desperate cry of a reed that has been severed from its root.~