Styx (Goddesses of the Underworld #2)

58. A Reckoning

A Reckoning

I had thought I understood how little

to expect from my mother and father.

I thought I had learned by now

what it meant

to live in the shadows.

But the way my mother had turned

away from Metis. The way she

had chosen not to see her

taught me something new.

There was an even darker quality

to this world of Titans.

A hierarchy where even a child

of Gods must abide by the rules,

accept being sent away in secret,

unclaimed by those who should

celebrate who you are at your birth.