Styx (Goddesses of the Underworld #2)

119. Tartarus

Tartarus

There were only two realms

to the Underworld.

Where the mortals went,

and where the immortals went.

But where the immortals went

was not just a place, but also a God.

What else could keep the divine

clenched between its teeth?

A cage would never hold us,

we would find a way out of it.

But Tartarus, the son of Chaos,

brother of Gaia, Eros, Erebus, and Nyx,

was both the cage and the weapon,

like a terrible womb filled with

a thousand immortal lives,

a burning inferno that captured forever.

We walked into the mouth of the cave

and within moments, we heard a roar.

‘Children of Titans.

You are not welcome here.’