Hera has to take a second to process this news before she says anything else. If she doesn't she might ask questions she might now want the answers to. "A few days at most," she finally replies, "time is a bit hard to tell on the islands."
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Hera has to take a second to process this news before she says anything else. If she doesn't she might ask questions she might now want the answers to. "A few days at most," she finally replies, "time is a bit hard to tell on the islands."