'Stand with your feet apart and your hands behind your head,' ordered Carl.I did as I was told. This was clearly the calm before the storm.The two men...circled me, like sharks.Suddenly, and without warning, Carl punched me in the stomach. I doubled up and stumbled back into Gee's arms.'I'll bite your fuckin' cock off if you start playing up,' snarled Carl.'Is that clear, rarse?' added Gee.Winded, I reply by nodding my head.'I can't hear you,' said Carl, punching me again.'Yes-s-s,' I spluttered,. To a point. Rose had made it plain that she would not have sex without a ring and he hadn't seen a problem with that. So they had eloped and she had been disowned by the old man. Some mistakes only became apparent when it was too fucking late. He had been smart enough not to use his real name however. His family was known as trouble in town and it was easier to lie about his name than endure the questions. Well, the hell he had endured, despite the name change, first from her father and then. Well he hiked up his back leg and commenced to lickin' his nuts. I'm a thinkin he does that jest to make Jed jealous.Jed looked over at me with that two tooth shit eatin' grin of his, "Jake, I purely wish that I could do that," he said, pointin' down to where the hound was."Now god dang it Jed, how many times have I told you, if you was to lick that dog's nuts, he'd plumb bite the shit outta you," I said with some wisdom. "What would you want to do a fool thing like that for anyhow? The dang. " Well, now someone has." . . .You're my father?"Pan taps his nose, you got it right on the money. You have to admit, something deep down knows it's true- somehow."The Gods of old sort of came to an agreement about two thousand years ago to, for the most part, leave the mortal world alone. Between that and the rise of Science we don't have quite the pull we used too. Some of us have enough influence to leave around Demigods to act as our agents but most of us are just considering this.