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made from Titan blood?’

Styx put her arm around Metis.

‘Come with us,’ she pleaded.

‘Come and tell our father all you know.’

Metis seemed torn.

But then she moved away from Styx.

‘I cannot. I have already pledged

my allegiance to Zeus

and Kronos’s children.’

What was our sister saying?

I felt like my heart was collapsing.

‘Metis,’ I whispered,

‘you are saying you are against us?’

She stared at us, yellow eyes strange

and distant. ‘Zeus is my consort.

I cannot turn against him.’

A Terrible Revelation

Styx’s eyes widened and she stepped back.

My own heart felt so heavy, as though

it contained the entire weight of the sea.

‘You have already had the ceremony?’

I asked her, my voice raw with pain.

She was staring at us still with that distant gaze.

‘I am carrying his child,’ she said simply.

‘And I am to be his queen of Gods.

I will rule beside him.’

The silence that followed her words

filled me with fear. Metis was impassive.

Styx stared at her and her eyes narrowed.

‘Metis,’ she hissed, ‘he does not even