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I turned to him
and he smiled reassuringly.
‘I will build my own home,’
I said, but Thanatos spoke.
‘I will help you.’
There was such a gentleness
to his words.You will not
have to do this alone.
Charon put a comforting
hand on my shoulder.
‘And I will aid too.’
Friendship. Kindness.
I did not need rescuing,
but I did need those.
‘You cannot do this.’
Styx’s voice broke.
‘I made a promise, Hekate.’
I shook my head.
‘You made that promise
to my mother. Not to me.’
This schism between us
was only widening now
and for a time that felt
like a thousand years
during which none of us spoke.
Then I said to Thanatos
and to Charon,
‘We must leave.’
And we did.
From the rubble
