"Certainly not. My mother would firmly agree with you." But then Psyche Apollonides was very, very dead. As was Parthenopaeus. And Echo, who'd been far closer to a star pupil than Urania.

"So I'm sure you'd find me quite useless in that regard. But perhaps Julien will; he was always a far brighter pupil than the rest of us." And of course, there was Athena. A star until she wasn't any longer.