Steeds of the Gods by Lucy Coats

Author:Lucy Coats
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2015-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

“Oh, dear,” he said. “That must hurt.”

“It does,” whinnied Abraxas pitifully. “A lot.”

“Put him in a stall,” Helios commanded. “I just need to have another quick word with young Pandemonius here.” Demon looked at him nervously. What did Helios want now? The god gripped him by the elbow again, and bent in close. “How are my friends the Cattle of the Sun doing?” the god asked unexpectedly. “Enjoying the nice bales of hay I send up from my fields, are they? Free of stomach gas? Keeping the goddesses happy at the lack of SMELL?”

“Y-y-yes, Your Sparkling Sunniness. Th-th-they’re f-fine,” Demon stammered, wondering what in Zeus’s underpants the Cattle of the Sun had to do with anything. He soon found out.

“Glad to hear it,” said Helios. “Now, here’s the thing. I might find I have a bit of a problem getting that hay up to Olympus, say, if I heard that old Fish Father’s Hippocamps were in tip-top condition for the race. On the other hand, if I heard that they’d had a recurrence of that nasty scale condition—been slowed down a bit by it, if you get my meaning—then I might find that the hay problem disappeared.” His grip tightened, and he swung Demon around to face him, piercing him with a bright golden glare. “You understand me, young stable boy?” The god let him go and strode off around the corner of the stables. The nymphs followed. Demon thought he understood only too well. It didn’t matter what he did now—whichever god won, he was either fated to be turned into a Demon-size smoking pile of charcoal by goddesses complaining about the terrible smell of gas coming from the Cattle of the Sun’s bellies, or doomed to spend the next hundred years scrubbing salt off of seaweed.

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