Page 227 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

Reunion

For a long time Pallas and Styx

had not lived together.

Since their children were taken

by Zeus to Olympus,

Styx had seen little point

in living inside an empty home,

so she had returned to her river,

and Pallas had left to roam.

But now, Pallas and Styx had built

a home in which they finally lived

together where the home they

had built for me once stood tall.

A strange pain grasped

my chest when I saw this.

But making something out of ruins

is a powerful kind of practice.

Still, this was the place

where so much began

… and ended for me.

Their palace was silver and jade,

the colours of the serpents

Styx cared for.

I had heard her river

ran through its centre,

despite the waters being acrid

and full of spirits.

I wondered what a home

full of poisonous waters was like?

It was time to find out.

Taking a deep breath,

I knocked on the glimmering

silver door.