𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀 [𝐩𝐣𝐨 𝐱 𝐡𝐩]

❝ BREAKING FREE ❞

|| CHAPTER FORTY THREE ||

❝ BREAKING FREE ❞

THEY FINALLY STOPPED IN A ROOM full of waterfalls.

The floor was one big pit, ringed by a slippery stone walkway. Around them on all four walls, water tumbled from huge pipes. The water spilled down into the pit, and even when Lilith shone a light, she couldn't see the bottom and quite frankly, she didn't even wanted to.

"Is this..?" Evelyn said, her eyes wide with fear and concern as she looked at Lilith.

Lilith nodded, her jaw cleanched, "This pit goes straight to Tartarus."

Briares slumped against the wall. He scooped up water in a dozen hands and washed his face. He murmured. "I should jump in and save you trouble."

A wave of fear and dread washed over Lilith's body. Her limbs were turing wobbly and her heart was beating fast. A drop of sweat dropped from her face into the pit making a sizzling sound erupt from the pit.

Percy and Evelyn looked at Lilith in concern. They both shared a glance and nodded at eachother. Percy held Lilith's hand, rubbing small circles on it while Evelyn slipped her hand in Lilith's other hand.

But Lilith pulled her hand out of their grasp. The girl swallowed, pushing all the screams and the face of her loved ones back in her mind and closing them in a box.

She can't be weak. Lilith Nightangel can not be weak.

"Don't talk that way," Lilith snapped at Briares. "You can come back to camp with us. You can help us prepare. You know more about fighting Titans than
anybody."

Evelyn grabbed Percy by collar and pulled him towards her, "Are you going to talk to her or I am?"

Percy pursed his lips and slapped Evelyn's hand away. "I am. I will talk to her."

Evelyn gave him a glare and nodded.

"I have nothing to offer," Briares said. "I have lost everything."

"What about your brothers?" Tyson asked. "The other two must still stand tall as mountains! We can take you to them."

Briares's expression morphed to something even sadder: his grieving face. "They are no more. They faded."

The waterfalls thundered. Tyson stared into the pit and blinked tears out of his eye.

"What exactly do you mean, they faded?" Percy asked, throwing a glance at Lilith to check on her. "I thought monsters were immortal, like the gods."

"Percy," Grover said weakly. "Even immortality has limits. Sometimes... sometimes monsters get forgotten and they lose their will to stay immortal."

Looking at Grover's face, Lilith wondered if he were thinking of Pan. She remembered something Medusa had told them once: how her sisters, the other two gorgons, had passed on and left her alone. Then last year Apollo said something about the old god Helios disappearing and leaving him with the duties of the sun god.