Quote:"I want it all." Agatha pirouetted.
"This might be your only chance." Samantha sighed. "It might be mine. That Protected Planets Treaty will kill space travel. We'll lose the gate for sure, probably be limited to unmanned probes and satellite launches."
"What?" Agatha gasped. "You can't be serious. To come so close and lose it all?"
"It's what's best for Earth," Samantha replied. "I'll have to be thankful I even got this chance."
"No."
Uh-oh.
"Agatha," Samantha said, backing away, "you promised you would control that temper."
"Never more calm in my life." The odd harmonics in Agatha's voice sent shivers down Sam's spine. "No treaty will deny us this. We have to bow down to the wishes of these 'gods'? Hah! I'll show them what it means to cross a Child of Daedelus."
"That's the engineer who built the labyrinth," Samantha said. "And--yes, I know this myth. He escaped with his son Icarus, who died when the sun melted the wax of his wings."
"Does your world's myth tell of what came after?"
"That is where ours ends," Samantha said. "It's a typical myth about hubris and challenging the gods. Working with Daniel for a year is one hell of a refresher on mythology."
"In our myths, when Daedelus heard Zeus proclaim his son's death," Agatha continued, "because of pride, he swore vengeance. Daedelus constructed a vessel to dive beneath the waves to steal Poseidon's trident. He broke Prometheus' chain in exhange for the secrets of fire. Hephaestus himself taught him the ways of the forge to spite Aphrodite's infidelity.
"Then Daedelus stormed Olympus itself." Agatha's smile could be measured in low decimals of Kelvin. "The gods fell before him or were driven to the darkest corners of the world. When Daedelus smashed in Zeus' head with a smith's hammer, Athena arose from her father's shattered brow. Daedelus claimed her as his own."
Agatha's wild cackle seemed to encompass everything around them.
"The ancient Greek Sparks called themselves the 'Children of Dadealus', and hubris was their birthright. Just LET THESE GODS TRY TO TELL ME WHAT I CAN OR CANNOT DO."
From http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost ... count=1068]Sparkgate on the Spacebattles forum. Not sure which chapter it is, but that link goes to the one in question, http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=164834]this is the top of the thread.
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