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Styx’s Words

filled an abyss inside me

that I had been guarding,

pretending that it did not exist.

Walking away from her

and Pallas in rage

had made me feel like I had

no way to return to them.

But I thought I knew better now.

I assumed what they did

was only to protect me

but also in penance

towards my parents.

What I did not realize

was that Styx actually loved me.

Here was confirmation

that I may have lost

my own mother,

but I was not motherless

and nor was I alone.