"A calamity?" Not unless you're young and exceptionally good-looking mortal, in which case being anywhere near Apollo is a calamity in itself...however, "I suppose he could make himself quite unpleasant...and would, too, if he was lured down somewhere he couldn't then leave. I couldn't blame him for that, really. And I don't know what it would tell us that we don't already know." Still she looked a little wistfully up at the sky.

"Do you mean you don't believe that gods exist, or that they might exist but you don't intend to worship them, or that it's never been a subject that interested you much but you didn't want to be wishy-washy by saying 'agnostic'?"