Tethys had actually turned into someone else!
My heart was full of doubts. Who was she trying to fool? I said I wanted to see Hera, and she turned into Hera. If I said I wanted to see Zeus, would she immediately turn from a woman into a man?
As a god, having some shapeshifting powers was hardly a big deal.
Besides, I had never seen what Hera really looked like, nor had I truly seen what Tethys looked like. Wouldn't she be able to bluff me however she pleased?
"How do you prove that you're Hera?" I asked her.
She froze for a moment. Clearly, she did not know how to prove it either, but she quickly came up with an idea. She pointed into the air, and a scepter immediately floated before her.
I had seen this thing once before. That was right, it was indeed a scepter—a silver scepter set with many colorful gemstones. At that moment, she looked somewhat like the Fairy Queen from Balala the Fairies.
"This is the scepter symbolizing Mount Olympus's supreme authority. There are two of them: one belongs to me, and one belongs to Zeus. His is gold, while mine is silver. Oh, right, I'm temporarily keeping his as well." As she spoke, she "conjured" another golden scepter. It looked exactly the same as the first one, aside from the color.
I said flatly, "So the Tethys I saw before was not the real Tethys?"
"No, the one you saw was indeed the real Tethys. It is just that the couple has already left. I was specifically waiting here for you."
She had actually calculated that I would come to see her.
"Since you're Hera, why didn't you say so when I said I wanted to see Hera? Why put on