Pandora the Curious by Joan Holub

Author:Joan Holub
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

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The Boys’ Dorm

A MINUTE LATER PANDORA, ATHENA, AND Aphrodite were sneaking up to the boys’ dorm on the fifth floor. Athena was still holding her slightly charred Spell-ology textscroll, and Aphrodite had her pom-poms.

As they took the stairs up, Pandora tried explaining to Athena that they weren’t actually going to a party.

“Then what are we doing?” Athena asked blankly.

“Good question,” said Pandora. She looked at Aphrodite. “Are we going to sneak into Epimetheus’s and Prometheus’s room? Steal the box? What are we going to do with it if we get it? What if they’re in their room?”

“Then we’ll confront them with our suspicions,” Aphrodite said firmly.

“What if this was all a Titan plot to overthrow Zeus?” Pandora went on, giving voice to that fear for the first time. She was so keyed up that questions began spilling out of her one after another. “What if Epimetheus and Prometheus are under their dad’s orders to blow us to smithereens if we get too curious? I don’t even know where their room is. Do you?”

“It’s at the end of the boys’ hall,” said Aphrodite. “I remember Ares mentioning it when those two Titans first came to MOA.”

Aphrodite had only answered her last question, Pandora noticed. Probably didn’t have an answer for all her other ones. Pandora didn’t either.

Athena giggled again. “This party sure is weird so far.”

Rolling her eyes, Aphrodite opened the door to the boys’ hall. “It’s a surprise party, Athena,” she said gently. “So you need to be very, very quiet.”

“Okeydoke,” whispered Athena. Pressing her thumb and forefinger together at the side of her mouth, she made a motion as if to zip her lips shut.

Pandora followed the other two girls through the door. Technically speaking, girls weren’t allowed up here except for special events. She had gone to a party in the common room at the end of the boys’ hall once. But she’d never really had a chance to look around.

So now, as the three girls tiptoed down the hall, she whipped her head back and forth, studying everything. Some of the boys had decorated their doors and left stuff in the hall. That made it easy to identify whose room was whose.

For instance, one door had a big poster-scroll tacked on it that showed Apollo and Dionysus playing in their band, Heavens Above. So that had to be their room. And leaning against the wall outside another door were several knobby clubs. Heracles’ room, of course.

“Ares’ room is down that way,” whispered Aphrodite. “It’s the one with the armor.”

Sure enough, Pandora could see a life-size suit of armor standing next to one of the doors up ahead. As the girls drew near, it clanked into the middle of the hall. Then it held up a shield in one hand and a spear in the other to block their path.

“Halt! Who goes there?” it said in a metallic voice.

“Oh, bother. Not you again,” Pandora heard Aphrodite mutter.

“Hello, gentle knight,” said Athena, making a deep curtsy. “Remember us? We’ve come for the party.

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