Yeah, Poe was a dark shade of crimson at this point, but he was barrelling ahead anyway.
"It doesn't have to be - I mean, it wouldn't be that bad, I don't think, she obviously makes you happy, so even if all we did was make a cordial arrangement so that she could do what she wished - like an alliance, I guess - I mean not that I don't want us to marry her, because every time I think about the two of you together I-- Look that really isn't the point."
Actually, Poe, it kind of is the point. But he sets it aside for now.
"I think if we got permission from Zeus first that she'd be forced to say yes. She can't go against Zeus. And since when have we asked for anything from him? He knows how valuable we are, he knows he can't actually risk pissing us off. All we'd have to do is close the gates to Hades and all of creation would fall into Chaos. So we - we tell him that we just need this one thing, this one little thing to be happy and leave all of their nonesense alone, if he'd just give his blessing for this one little thing--"
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"It doesn't have to be - I mean, it wouldn't be that bad, I don't think, she obviously makes you happy, so even if all we did was make a cordial arrangement so that she could do what she wished - like an alliance, I guess - I mean not that I don't want us to marry her, because every time I think about the two of you together I-- Look that really isn't the point."
Actually, Poe, it kind of is the point. But he sets it aside for now.
"I think if we got permission from Zeus first that she'd be forced to say yes. She can't go against Zeus. And since when have we asked for anything from him? He knows how valuable we are, he knows he can't actually risk pissing us off. All we'd have to do is close the gates to Hades and all of creation would fall into Chaos. So we - we tell him that we just need this one thing, this one little thing to be happy and leave all of their nonesense alone, if he'd just give his blessing for this one little thing--"