I looked up into her eyes questioningly.
‘Hekate. I do not
have two daughters,’
she said softly to me,
‘I have three. That includes you.’
Styx’s Words
filled an abyss inside me
that I had been guarding,
pretending that it did not exist.
Walking away from her
and Pallas in rage
had made me feel like I had
no way to return to them.
But I thought I knew better now.
I assumed what they did
was only to protect me
but also in penance
towards my parents.
What I did not realize
was that Styx actually loved me.
Here was confirmation
that I may have lost
my own mother,
but I was not motherless
and nor was I alone.
Fear
I had barely taken a few steps
out of Styx’s palace
when I heard it,
the sound of small wings,
