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Foxglove: What are you doing?

Altair: Hmm… Greek Mythology is kind of strange.

Foxglove: Hey, you’re the one who asked for a story.

Altair: I didn’t ask for a weird one.

Foxglove: Hey, the end is romantic, right? They get to spend eternity together in the stars.

Altair: When you put it that way…

Foxglove: Well at the wedding, Andromeda’s fiance showed up.

Altair: Ooh, drama alert.

Foxglove: He ended up in a fight to the death with Perseus. The latter winning, of course.

Altair: Wouldn’t have expected any different.

Foxglove: Then when Perseus and Andromeda died Athen placed both of them in the sky.

Altair: Sounds like she got a lucky break.

Foxglove: Unluckily for Perseus when they returned, he found out the Andromeda was already engaged to another.

Altair: That’s unfortunate.

Foxglove: He married her anyways.

Altair: Of course he did.

Altair: So, what did he do?

Foxglove: He ordered Andromeda to be chained up and fed to a sea monster.

Altair: That seems a little… extreme.

Foxglove: The gods usually are.

Altair: So, I’m missing where the love story part of this comes in.

Foxglove: Perseus just so happened to be passing by after having just slain Medusa. When he found Andromeda chained to the rock, he slew the sea monster and freed her.

Foxglove: Do you see that cluster of stars over there? That’s Andromeda.

Altair: Andromeda?

Foxglove: She was the daughter of King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia, and very beautiful.

Altair: How did she end up in the stars?

Foxglove: The queen bragged about Andromeda’s beauty to the point it upset Posiden. He had made the Nereids and the queen claimed that she was just as beautiful, if not more.