Page 202 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

A New Body and Home

I would not have noticed it,

I was so busy building

my own palace on the shore

of Mnemosyne, collecting bones

and crystal-like memories

to make way for my new home.

It simply happened that one day

I was standing next to Thanatos

as we built my palace

and then I realized,

he no longer towered over me.

Instead, we stood almost

shoulder to shoulder,

willing the white marble

to settle into the earth’s crust.

A grand wooden kitchen

full of everlasting food.

A white marble and

obsidian hall to greet guests

and play dice.

But my favoured room,

the one I loved most,

was in the onyx tower

that rose through the earth’s crust

into the land of the living.

Hidden from mortal eyes

by a forest, it was there

that I had built a home

for the owls I would take in

as my very own.

Charon helped carve

heavy oaken doors

for me. And often,

we would all sit on

the banks of Mnemosyne.

It was the most at peace

I had felt since

I had been in

my first home

with my mother.