Athens, Thursday Morning

[not_of_the_nora]

That morning, the school packed up on Zakynthos and hopped into a portal, en route to Athens.

Too bad someone hadn't checked the itinerary.

The sun shone high in the sky and you could still hear the surf in the distance, that was the difference. But all you needed to do was see one donkey cart and realize: you were far away from home.

Welcome to Athens, sometime before 400 B.C.

Enjoy yourselves?

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Re: Acropolis

[justice_undone]

Breq wandered around the city, not minding a change of millennium, and enjoying the glimpse into a part of the history of Earth. Society had clearly changed, since in this time she noticed a lot of the labour being done by slaves, which was obviously considered normal.

She made it up on to the hill and to the temple area, and approached the largest one, dedicated to the patron goddess of the city. The interior housed a colourful statue, and Breq made an offering, looking at the people around her how it was customarily done. She didn't believe in any gods, but it felt like a suitable thing to do. It amused her that had she been in the Radch, if an ancillary were to make an offering in a temple, a lot of purification rituals would have been needed to set things right.