Page 13 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

The Last Place Left

Where would you hide

if you were being

pursued by

two of the most powerful Gods?

Where would you hide

if you had already run

through the entire world

and still, still they chased you down?

You would go to the only place

where Gods were not allowed

to enter without invitation.

A place I had been taught to fear.

As my mother stood at

the mouth of the Underworld,

I buried my head

into her chest in fright.

But she was determined,

and she entered the obscure cave,

her feet careful over the rocks

that surrounded the riverbed.

I could hear the running water

of the legendary river the dead took

to enter this cave. But before my mother

could take us further inside,

a figure stopped her in the dark.