Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

183. ‘Please…’

‘Please…’

I was so eager,

I did not even know

what to ask her.

And then the crone spoke,

her smile never wavering.

‘The answer you seek is not here.’

At first I thought

I had misheard her.

‘But you must know my purpose!

And I found something

along the journey,’

I was speaking quickly now.

‘I became three!

Three versions of myself.

Like you!’

I gestured towards the mother

and maiden who were looking

closely at me now.

I turned back to the crone,

‘How did I become three?

You must know something,

you know the fates

of everyone,

mortal or God!’