Wedding Present

She knows she's not supposed to do it, but she just can't resist.

Really, they ought to know better.  The box right there, positively screaming to be opened.  What's a girl to do?  Surely she shouldn't just leave it there.  After all, everyone deserves to know what's inside.  It can't be anything that bad.  It's probably something lovely, and they told her not to open it just to peak her curiosity.  Yes, that must be it.  It must be their idea of a joke.  Surely even Athena, scary and practical though she may be, can make a joke, right?

So what if her new husband said not to open the box because his brother told him that it would be a bad idea?  Big deal if he has foresight.  It didn't do him much good, from what she can tell, chained to a rock with birds picking at him, day in and day out.  Besides, he also said it would be a bad idea for his brother to go out with her.  Had her husband listened to his brother then?  No.  So why should she listen to what the idiot who must be half crazy from pain and sunstroke says?

She knows she's not supposed to do it, but she just can't resist.

She opens the lid.