Page 166 of Styx
Someone or something must have taken her.
On her quest to find ingredients,
someone may have stolen her.
An outrage burst through me.
Who had the audacity to trap a Goddess?
Who had thought they could get away
with such a sacrilegious, vile deed?
My hands balled into fists.
‘We need to find her. Now.’
Eurus pointed and said,
‘She is in a cavern three mountains
away from here. It is the only cavern
upon that mountain.’
She contemplated something,
then looked at us carefully.
‘I wish you good fortune.
And safety.’
The Mouth of the Unknown
I was immortal enough to rarely feel pain,
but there was discomfort in walking
mountain ranges with a baby within my womb.
Asteria and Pallas both helped me
where they could, often exchanging worried
glances. We were headed into the belly
of an unknown beast and I was now so swollen,
it was clear I had a child within me.
A child destined to complete a prophecy.
Just before nightfall we reached the cavern.
This was nothing like Asteria’s and my own
hiding place, which was comforting and familiar.
