[ Circe snorts, rather inelegantly. ] I have no part in that. My aunt Selene does not speak to me. [ And wow, but there is some concealed bitterness there.

She dismisses it as an old hurt, and it fades into palpable amusement. ] Who you speak of is my grandfather and grandmother, Oceanus and Tethys. I am very minor in that scheme of things, one of hundreds of children of the sea. Still, you say that you live in the ocean? In what manner?

[ She would assume he means as a fisherman or sailor, but she's learned not to assume things here. ]