How Sofia And Alexander Was Revealed In Homer's Odyssey

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After Sofia and Alexander became the head god and goddess of duskmoore, Nora their daughter noticed that Tobias the fourth dwarf wasn’t acting like himself. Sofia and Alexander became very worried for their friend and for Duskmoore. When Sofia and Alexander went to go visit Tobias, they could see in his eyes that he was about to leave Duskmoore and join Sofia’s parents.
All of the dwarfs gathered around Tobias as they watched him take his last breath. Sofia had Winston, the seventh dwarf take over for Tobias until they could figure out their next step. When the family came back from Tobias’s funeral, Nora and Carter went outside to play and Sofia and Alexander sat down and had to talk about their options. Sofia was about to go to bed after a very long talk with her husband but decided to read one her favorite magazine to clear her head. She was flipping through the pages and then she saw, Oana the goddess of advice in big bold letters. Sofia jumped up out of her bed and ran downstairs to find Alexander. There Alexander was standing in the middle of the kitchen eating a bowl of soup. Sofia ran up to him and showed him the page, he got so excited then he saw that she was located
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By the time Alexander woke up he talked to Sofia and asked her what Oana said and she explained everything to him. Alexander felt so bad for not helping and missing out on so much he decided it was best to just take the kids and leave Sofia to work. As Alexander was watching Nora and Carter play in their backyard he was thinking about how much Duskmoore has evolved over the last couple of years and then he remembered what had happened to Sofia’s mother when she was creating the animals. He became deeply worried about Sofia's health and brought it up to her at dinner. Sofia got so emotional and offended that she stormed back into their chamber and continued to make the seven

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