30- Persephone

Thought the nightmares vanished when she laid with him, the habit of hers to wake up early had not gone away.

That was right now, as she sat on the rocking chair with Kleopatra on her laps, she stared at him.

Persephone felt that it was a sin.

Not the sort of sin that seemed to bother the people of the Old world, no, though she did think such little rules on what was good and what was evil was silly, her own example of sin was far distorted.

Why would the gods create such a being and then leave it in the wild?

Looking at him now, she wondered how long he would last before the war began, if she had not come into his life.

At this current stage.

Dead at the first battlefront.

Well, she already knew the answer to the question. The gods enjoyed games. Drop it in the wild and watch it try to survive, if it did not, sad but next person might try harder, and if it did, it was an anomaly that should be destroyed.

Just like her.

She would never have survived long enough with the voice