"O my children. Stop your bickering just

"O my children. Stop your bickering just this once. Make peace with your maker." The voice wasn't really his." He'd passed denial. The asteroid would impact. Others knew, surely.
He'd left his children there with his hologram. Only one person per pod. He had bio-tags and could regrow them later, after they were vaporized on earth by the asteroid.
He never liked the littlest one, Juanita, anyway. She was always sniveling and wanting to be held. He'd be sure to mod that behavior out in Juanita 2.0 when they arrived at Alpha
Centauri. They travelled in a leisurely manner up the centaur's shin bone until they saw the signs 'Welcome to Rigel Kent, Capital of Hofle Zooters'. How parochial!
The centaurs were there to greet us: Chiron, Orius, Elatus, Nessus, Pylenor and Pelion were there waitIng. There were more in the next room. Zeus was roaming around somewhere.
Chiron stepped up to me & pointing at Ajax said, "Everybody knows that one is a self sacrificer. Why have him here? We have our honor at risk either way." I promised him Zeus would
return his calls, but the bolt-flinging god was too busy filling his heifer with swans, which left me manning Olympus's phones. It's like a damn soap opera up here, I swear. If I
have to listen to one more fawning mortal begging me to connect them with Aphrodite for a favor, I will blow my ever-loving top. "Ask her out yourself, fool!" I will yell into the
face of the next pretty boy named Adonis who comes walking up to me drooling, and bulging out of his shorts like the side of a dented vegetable can. "Hey, Venus. How is Aphrodite?"
Venus said, "I'm sure I wouldn't know. Nice you're showing more leg again, but we all thought you were dead. BTW, if Apollo invites you to Frisbee golf, find a way to decline."

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