Page 157 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

Kronos

What happens to a God-King after a war?

Does he flee? Or is he captured?

And if he is captured,

what punishment is fair for a God-King?

And if he is punished, then for how long?

There are questions I never asked,

for I never considered them.

My uncle Pallas did not speak of the war

after I was left in the Underworld

in his and Styx’s care.

He named the war a haunting memory.

He did not like to speak of its consequences.

For the first time I wondered

how he and Styx had managed to get

in Zeus’ good graces. What had they done?

My uncle especially refused to talk

of the punishment doled out to my father,

his own brother. But it was Kronos’ name

that made his neck tighten, his teeth grit

and his loud voice go very quiet.

Kronos led the Titans, my father by his side,

against his children. They lost. We lost.

So now here he was. A mad king,

who once had the whole cosmos in his palm

and now presided over nothing.

Is this the fate of all God-Kings?