Page 6 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

The Children of Gods

are born into deathless eternity.

Our fathers hold us up to the light

and bless us with our purpose as babes.

Our paths are chosen for us

long before we are even conceived,

but at my birth my father was long gone,

fighting a war so far away

he wasn’t even there to watch his first child

take her first steps into this world.

My mother told me,

‘You are special, my daughter,

which is why you must find your own purpose.

You are no ordinary child.

You are destined for greater things.

A path you must carve alone.

You are not yet a Goddess, Hekate.

That is a divinity you must seek.

And you will find it one day for yourself.’

I think that even then,

she knew what would become of us.

I think she had foreseen the end.