I smiled back at him. "She's been wanting me back home for weeks, to fight against Hades." I shrugged. "I have to go and fight sooner or later. But not today."
All you need is faith, trust, and a little bit of pixie-dust!
For according to the trollish philosopher Plateau, "if you wants to understan' an enemy, you gotta walk a mile in his shoes. Den, if he's still your enemy, at least you're a mile away and he's got no shoes." — A Blink of the Screen by Terry Pratchett