Page 165 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

The Race

Each of us took a cave.

Each stumbling as we did.

I could feel them,

the other two me’s.

We could think linear thoughts,

the same thing occurred to us at once.

We scrambled over rocks

together in the endless caves

and I saw what they saw.

It was the third version of me

that Kronos gave chase to.

She was the slowest of us

even if by just a fraction.

I heard him behind her,

he was closing in!

I willed her to run faster

while I ran faster myself.

His hand reached out

closing around her

NO NO NO NO

In panic, she shoved her torch

into his face and as though

he had seen his own monster

he roared in fear and dropped her

and she scrambled to her feet and…