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Chapter 40 - A Tense Conversation

"Are you sure you're putting it in right?" Aegle asked me.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing," I said as I put my hand into the garden lake. Quick summary: Hera had ordered on her last visit to the Hesperides that from that moment on, the garden lake would not be available for their use for a week. The reason, apparently once every 100 years the water had to be purified or something like that, so only gods with a domain could touch the water, because otherwise if they touched it, it would be like when the witch in The Wizard of Oz got water thrown on her. But anyway, there wouldn't have been a problem if Aegle hadn't dropped her cup in there while she was reading.

So I was trying to find it, because, newsflash, when water is purified, it stops being transparent for some reason. I know, crazy, right?

I kept searching with my hand for a few seconds until...

*CLINK*

"Aha, gotcha," I said as I finally managed to pull the wine cup out of the lake.

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