"Got it, probably useful to have that separated anyway so I don't accidentally send work shit to normies."

"I could use my hypnotic voice to cover it up if there's a serious infosec breach or get you busted out if you got committed, but yeah, better not to have to, it makes me feel gross to use nonconsensually."

"Okay, good, the fact that you specify nonconsensually implies you're not the lame kind of radfems in that way either."

Lauren snorts. "You should see my browser history."

Gwen rolls her eyes.

"Nope! 100% sex-positive intersectional feminist over here."

"I don't like the word 'feminist', really. It implies mortal women are the primary victims of their arrangement, rather than the boys being equally harmed by being burdened with responsibilities above their capabilities."

"I'm not really on board with all the ideological stuff. Born and raised Roman citizen, legion tattoo and all. Just switched to Seattle because they have better regulations around medical research."

"Not many Asian people in Italy, so I assume there's some kind of magic Byzantium situation going on with whoever is granting Roman citizenship?"

"Ah, yeah—New Rome, not old. The legion's city. It's moved with us—them—from France to England to Virginia to California, over the last few centuries."

"Olympus and the Styx also move; they're in NYC and LA now."

"The Bermuda Triangle rivals the Mediterranean in monster population, the Kansas City area exceeds the old Cretan capital at Knossos in density of Labyrinth entrances, and the Hyperborean giants and other edge-of-the-world 'beyond the view of the gods' type populations mostly relocated to Alaska."

"So the Greek gods aren't really the Greek gods, they're more like the 'whichever civilization is currently most powerful and advanced' gods? Are people concerned that they're gonna become Chinese soon?"

"They're tied to 'Western' civilization. They go to wherever the centers of power are within the area most culturally influenced by ancient Greece and Rome."

"Awfully problematic of them to believe in a colonialist white supremacist construct like that."

"People have been thinking of themselves as the heirs of Greece and Rome longer than there's been the idea of the 'white race' as a biologically distinct group."

"Yeah. I know. I just find the idea of wokescolding literal gods to be funny. Hey, were they not ever headquarted in the Ottoman Empire, or Imperial Russia?"

"Nah, Olympus and the Styx have tended towards a western direction in their movement, whenever there have been multiple competing claimants to be the successors of Rome."

"So I guess if China doesn't start getting Greekpilled American global hegemony will never end."

Gwen's ride to get the boxes arrives.

"Care to continue this conversation en route to your place?"

"Yeah, sorry for dragging on."

"It's fine! Lead the way."

"Oh, yeah, I don't have a car either, let me figure how I can specify to Uber that I need a car that can accommodate 6 people."

She figures it out. Lauren's sister drops off the truck on time, and the gang load Katie's stuff in.