Page 115 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

Nightmares

For days these terrible dreams

plagued me till visions formed in my mind.

My father’s face and my promise to him

haunted my waking days now.

Madness felt close. Too close.

I was desperate enough to try

anything. Anything to help me

keep this fear and helplessness at bay.

Something to occupy my mind and body.

So I took ink and paper and began

to fill them with the stories

from Asphodel, from Charon,

the tales Pallas brought from his travels.

In my mind, I became

the keeper of all these fables.

And for a while, this worked.