Medea uses a demon flame to transport them to some kind of antechamber of Hermes. Hermes isn’t happy to see them — probably because, like us, he’s going to have to sit through another endless debate about faith vs. science — and tries to lift the Lexicon from Hero. He’s warded off with the Ring, but all may not be as it seems; a more powerful god may want Hermes to appear inimical to the four, but whose side is he on?