He looked surprised. "Didn't you make all these houses?" he said, waving his hand vaguely about to indicate all the houses in Newhome.

"No, I didn't. I helped. Everyone did. But Hestia designed them and told us how to do it. Why does she want one, anyway?"

She knew the answer, of course. Bloody Aphrodite! Showing her all the wonders of Newhome; leaving her to make the inevitable comparison between her own squalid life and the civilised life of the Olympians. ...