44. Pallas
Pallas
used to be a God of Warcraft.
But Zeus could not allow this,
so he took some of his gifts
to maintain control over him.
Then Pallas became a God of Craftmanship.
He built palaces and weapons.
I did not often see much of him
as he was always wandering the earth.
His gifts of creation were
always needed in the land of the living.
But his real love was crafting
wooden toys. His daughter Bia,
he told me once, loved wooden toys. When
he visited, he filled my palace with his small gifts.
Once, I asked him about his brother, my father,
but his eyes darkened with something
unnamed and he stormed out of my halls.
The next day I found a carefully crafted
eagle sitting over the fireplace.
A gift, an explanation or an apology?
Perhaps all three.