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"Perseus looked at his mother and at Dictys, trying to comprehend how these two all-powerful people were suddenly incapacitated. Dictys could steer a course through a sudden storm, he could catch any fish the ocean chose to offer, he could out-sail the monsters of the deep. And yet there he sat, wordless. His mother could heal any injury, repair any break. But she simply stood in silence as their lives fell apart."

"The quiet companionship Dictys had offered was the greatest gift any mortal could have given her. And now - she knew it before the words were spoken - it was about to be taken away.
'This is no life for a woman like her,' the king said. 'She leaves with me.'"

"'You are a disgrace,' said the king. 'To have a woman like this in your house and take no pleasure from her.' He shook his head in disgust.
'I don't take pleasure from anyone unless they offer it freely,'
'You have always been so weak.'
'I have always seemed so to you, certainly.'"

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"'The boy is not yours?'
'He is the grandson I wish I had,' said Dictys, Danaë felt her son soften beside her and tried to do the same.
'Ha!' The king's laughter was intended to be unkind. 'For that to happen, brother, you would have had to desire a woman.'
There was silence. Dictys tilted his cup. 'Yes, brother,' he said. 'I would. But the Fates brought me a daughter and a grandson regardless.'"

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"Perseus ran straight to Danaë and stood in front of her. She remembered in a rush the first time she realized she couldn't see over his head any more, and then barely over his shoulder either. Her boy had grown so tall and strong out on the water every day."

"She gazed at him, tracing echoes of Dictys's brow and nose and jaw on the king's face, and wondering how the same features could be so reassuring in one man and so off-putting in another."