rock. His guts h

ed dow

ouring them. It flew off to a rock

dad asked

ts wings, the eagle shed its skin, revealing a

omed. He wiped the

s wound steamed, bu

d's gaze was ice.

ng dead ar

ds. But in the end, even the fields burn. They give way to new blood. Ask dear Dem

er learn." He swooped viciously close to my dad, grabbing his head. Zeus drove it into the ground.

laugh. "A flame in a fenne

tos, Bia, come." Zeus rubbed his temple.

appeared, cheeks smudged with grease. He was

er's head, tending to his wounds.

ather's side, putting a poultice on his wound. "Can yo

ever." He sighed. "Time flows so differently on earth. I suppose she's grown." He

ing him as we speak." Hephaestus glanced over his

struck the

d lay still, followi

stus bellowed. The wr

his mouth, gag the traitor. Or should

s. The woman lingered behind him, followi

ed his fist, making to pummel my father: "You cripp

ieked. Her chest cracked as d

You were the best of th

immed. "Fates be wi

ia. I leaned back in my couch as

raight up. "

the driver's seat, Star

god of thieves abducted me. And if any of this is

s?" Hermes

. "It all makes sense now. Dad was constantly go

again, like a memory. I wondered if t

to now, sweeth

ol play! I'm a stalk of cor

urse." He tossed me into the air. I laughed as he caught me. "If I c

his side. "Daddy, don'

e dark car beyond. "I love you

back to th

o you're familiar

by, painted red by fall. "Each night, dad told me

Mercury Cyclone?" Hermes drove his foot into th

my abandoned house. The wind whipped oak leaves around us, and the clouds parted

es p

eppe

house stung li

ometheus'

or. His fingers lingered on the strange language scorched into the frame. "Ther

he wood. They were fresh as they'd

tering

w dro

d it?" Herme

I said,

ing into your heritage,

ice r

hile Phobos

Stygian

Tartar

Lightbri

ftly st

lame, seek

the L

I came home," I whispered.

mes scrutinized the words. He pulled

ha

other.

lieve I'm saying this. The gods, Olympus, everything," I s

trying to prove a point. Mortals do that when you think y

wh

an through technology means humanity turned their back on the gods." Hermes' face grew dark. "Zeus do

ided to to

. Zeus didn't hesitate to send a flood. It was only through Prome

cali

All my sibli

Prometheus' descendants repopulate the w

gives hi

ine, each spark of electricity

cheeses," I said. "So hu

by a Titan. Not that your father would want that. But you," Herm

at my palms. "How can I even exist? My dad?" I choked back a sob. "Ho

s hus

arents left. They n

y've gotten worst. There are factions plotting to dispose of Zeus. Twe

d y

man. I can't g

're all

times. He needed Prometheus for support. Your father went m

pressed my cheek against the window. "They're not even my pa

ne. "If that were true,

left

om discovering your existence. Yo

make sense,"

're a miracle. The first

ha

humans we can conceive. The fact that Prometheus, a Titan, and an Oceanid l

wh

Twelve's time is over. Perhaps it's tim