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for Kronos’s grand decree,

I had been having dreams.

And the more dreams I had,

the more I needed to be alone.

I could not tell my mother,

or my father for that matter.

My parents were, after all,

the God of Intellect

and the Goddess of Prophecy.

They would make this larger

than I needed it to be,

or see it as a premonition

and I did not desire that yet.

I needed to know what it was

that I had seen and only

the water could tell me that.

So I made my way to

the one place I knew

I could be away from prying eyes

and be at peace. My own secret.

The little cave I had found an era ago,

which provided the solace I needed.

But when I jumped over

the craggy rocks covered in moss

to the familiar mouth

of my beloved sanctuary,

a cold surprise awaited me.

Someone

Was

Already