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"Will you shutthe fuckup?" came the same annoyed voice as before
"For Her to have done this, you uy near h he hadn’t even heard the commotion down the corridor
"You first Who’s ‘The Bitch’?"
Whispers Sad, fragile whispers began, carrying down the corridor Whispers of one word, one word that finally beca
Athena
The hairs on the back of ht The bird voice mixed with the others in a whisper that sounded like awe "Athena"
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I LAUGHED IN DISBELIEF, THE SHARP SOUND REBOUNDING DOWN the corridor, the echo eventually replaced by the flat, continuous drip of water against stone First vampires, witches, and shape-shifters And now this
This is what Alice must have felt like when she tuot the feeling that round prison, as though everyone here was, for a ht, their own horror and disbelief
"How long have you been in here?" I asked the figure across fro about time," he said softly "Best to not ask that question No one likes to dwell on it"
Oh Right "And Athenayou’re talking the Athena, Greek goddess, hung out on Olympus?"
"She is, unfortunately for us all, very real"
My back slumped and my eyelids fluttered closed as a dued there What the hell was happening? Why the hell couldn’t I get out of this freaking nightods were real I didn’t kno to react, so I just sat there feeling blank and squeezing the bars as tightly as I could And even ures
I pulledon the words: "I can’t believe this" Thehad to be incredibly acute I lifted ods?"
"Soods you learn about in school, some are mere fiction, but many of them are or were once real And there are some never mentioned in the chronicles of mankind, who even now roam the earth The pantheons are not what they used to be The Age of the Gods has long passed, and now they struggle for survival just like the rest of us Entire faods overthrown, imprisonedThere are only two pantheons left, made up of those who survived the wars and rivalries And Athena would like nothing better than to wipe her enemies off the face of the planet In the meantime, she amuses herself with plots and vindictive pleasures"
"So, what did you do to piss her off?"
He laughed "I was born to power"
Another whisper drifted from down the hall "I’m born too"
"Me too"
"And me"
"And me"
My heart thudded harder These people, their only cri born Was that my crime as well?
The bird voice came next "Born or Made Born or Made We are all Born or Made"
"Which are you?" I asked louder, pressing my face to the bars so my voice would carry down the hall