Page 149 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

‘You Must Take the Cave to the Night Realm’

Hermes’ voice was careful.

But I could hear something else.

Was it perhaps concern?

‘You should know,’

he said, as though

reading my mind,

‘even I do not pass

through that realm.

Nyx is a law unto her own.’

Through the ivy of fear

that was crowding my heart,

these words gleamed

like a gold coin

shimmering among stones.

An ancient Goddess

so formidable that even

Olympians feared her.

What power that must be.

I looked back at the waters

and suddenly,

they seemed more inviting.

So I waded through them

to the rock where they started

from and climbed up.