115. Dawn
Dawn
When rosy-fingered Eos
rose across the horizon
and soft gilded light fell
across the oceans and all
the secrets they held within,
Asteria and I returned to the palace
to find Leto, Pallas, and Perses
waiting for us upon the stairs.
Asteria’s parents were nowhere to be seen.
Leto told us, ‘They do not want us to go.’
I hissed at these words,
‘It is not their choice to make.
We will go where we please.’
Pallas gently took my hand.
‘I promise we will find her,’
he told me, his amber eyes
like molten-hot liquid,
filled with the promise
of hope and love.
I smiled tiredly at him
and turned to Perses.
‘How will we travel?’
Perses looked over the horizon.
‘Our brother Astraeus’s children,
the Anemoi.’