Something about my face must leak bewilderment and non-belief. I understand his world. I just don’t inhabit it. Megalos smiles, and claps me on the shoulder: a man recognising hard work. "The prophetess Cassandra was cursed that she should see the future and never be believed. The goddess Athena was beyond such restriction because belief was not in her nature. She either knew or she did not. The fascination with faith is a Christian invention, of course. When your god simply never shows up, faith becomes quite necessary. In any case, long before the Nazarene carpenter, when King Agamemnon took Cassandra as a concubine after the Trojan War, Athena visited the sleeping woman in the shape of an owl and drank the tears from her cheeks as she dreamed. In this way, Cassandra’s visions passed to one who could understand and profit by them.