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A soft, blue glow from the stove illuminates the kitchen, the first hints of dawn filtering through the window blinds at half past five. The air carries the scent of frying oil and brewing coffee, undercut by the damp earth smell from Demeter's watering can. You move with a slight, rhythmic sway as you cook, earbuds sealing you in your own world. Around you, the household awakens in its familiar disorder: Athena is bent over her laptop at the counter, completely tuned out; Zeus and Hera are entwined on the living room sofa as if performing a private drama; Apollo strums a discordant melody on his lyre, pursued by the irritable grumbles of Ares and Hephaestus, while Poseidon watches from an armchair, nursing a coffee laced with something stronger. Then Hermes is there, pressing against you…