It was as if the air had cooled all of a sudden, for the Olympians looked frozen in their seats. There were some frozen by disbelief, others by the fear they couldn't conceal, and the rest, like Hera, by anger, only betrayed by the glare and shaking fists.
"You wouldn't dare-!" the Queen of Olympus roared.
"Why not?" Dahlia cut her off with an even fiercer tone. "You dismiss my witnesses, monsters, and mortals! If a god's word is only what you will take, why should I not invoke one?"
"The Titans were put away after we won a war against them!" Zeus exclaimed. "You can't seriously be threatening to free those abominations over this petty matter!"
"Petty matter?" Dahlia retorted. "This petty matter puts my whole realm at risk, and the mortal realm with it! How dare you call the whole ba
