Page 133 of Styx

‘Leto has the answers we are looking for.’

A surge of bitter envy ran through my veins.

Metis had always been closest to Leto

in a way that made me ache.

And perhaps Asteria was right.

Leto might have some of the answers

that we so desperately needed.

But if this was true then why had her sister

allowed Metis to leave at all?

I knew there was much more to this.

A child who grows up as a secret

eventually chooses the only way possible

for her. She becomes secretive herself.

Or she disappears.

An Aftermath

Nyx had already wrapped the sky in her cloak

by the time we returned to Asteria’s parents’ palace.

The silence in those halls as we walked them

was as haunting as a siren’s song.

Every step we took echoed

as though a thousand voices sang.

Pallas held my hand and I realized

I was trembling.

Was this fear? Was this anger?

When we reached the doors of Coeus’s chambers,

we heard the voices of Coeus and Leto within.

Quickly pushing the doors open,

we went into the unknown.

Leto’s Despair

Perhaps I would have been more enraged