Page 3 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

Mother

was the Goddess of Oracles

and Falling Stars.

On the night I was born

she was all alone.

Her cries were heard by no one

as she drew me wailing

out of her womb,

wrapping me in her arms.

A thousand stars fell

together from the cosmos.

Some called it an omen,

others called it a blessing.

My mother knew better.

Her immortal body already

healed after the birth,

she carried me to

the balcony of her chambers.

As she held me in her arms

we watched a silver shower

rain across the midnight sky

behind the blazing fire

of a ten-thousand-year-old war.

She told me the stars fell

because she had granted

a thousand wishes in my name.