California Hotel, Part IV
The desert surrounding the hotel folds in on itself and over the hotel, crumbling and burying the entire structure in the span of a minute
The desert surrounding the hotel folds in on itself and over the hotel, crumbling and burying the entire structure in the span of a minute
An enormous black blur crashes into Hades, and my lips twitch with amusement as the venerated king of the underworld is tossed exuberantly to the side of the road.
Reaching forward, I swipe my thumb across her lower lip in thought, murmuring, “I’m not whole without you, Aren…ever.”
“If you wanted some love, all you had to do was ask,” I smirk, strolling off the elevator without a care in the world.
“Well, how do you feel now? Wingless and soon to be headless, at the hands of the only woman you ever loved.”
She pouts at me, and if she were standing, she would likely have stomped her foot. “T-that’s not fair!” “When has Love ever been fair?”
“Did you know? Did you know this whole time? Was this some kind of sick joke you played at my expense?”
“The masters said not to kill the love god, that he needs to get the staff, but they won’t know if we take a bite…”
“The visions,” Dinlas says aloud. “That’s why we both had visions, Eros. If that dimension is crumbling, it’s becoming porous.”
I return his punches, the anger giving me inordinate strength, and between returning strikes, the truth slips from me. “She! Took! My! Wings!”
Because I wasn’t wrong before. I didn’t see things that weren’t there; it was not a trick of the light. Those are her eyes.
I can’t even believe my eyes as Ate flies past me, falling to the ground with a speed even Hermes would have trouble tracking.
A wedding tune. My eyes go wide, and I glance around waiting for another god to step up to what I now realize is an altar.
Atë’s face darkened with warning. “Don’t lecture me, freak. What would running in there and comforting her accomplish? Hm?”
Shot the king of the gods in the ass with an arrow, and now the queen of the gods wants my wings mounted on her wall.