Standoff

“I’m okay,” Sam said as he pulled himself up from the ground where he’d been lying only a second ago. “I, uh, just had a weird dream.”

He reassured Thunder with a toothy smile Apollo promised would get him out of any predicament. Thunder’s rising eyebrow told Sam Apollo was mistaken though, leading Sam to the conclusion that the sun god didn’t have a clue about mortal women. 'Guy probably doesn’t stick around long enough for them to get mad at him.'

“You were unconscious for almost a minute,” Thunder said in a tone that sounded both worried and annoyed to Sam’s ears. “Unconscious, Sam… And we didn’t know why.”

“Only a minute?” Sam confirmed. 'Huh, I guess Apollo wasn’t lying about time in the white-hot room being different from the mortal world.'

The others were huddled around Sam, and they all had worried expressions on their faces as Thunder had. Everyone except for Farsight that is.