An excitable archaeologist meets a reclusive immortal Titan. The two have to work together to save the world from certain doom. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, it would be if the most primordial evils weren't standing in their way...
Join Kass...
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"I still can't believe I let you convince me to do this," Kassandra muttered under her breath as Theo pulled the hand break up and switched the engine of her hire car off.
"I can. You are a naturally curious person. You would not be happy if you did not get the answers you are after." Theo spoke so matter-of-factly that Kass couldn't deny it.
He's known me for barely twenty-four hours, yet he has me figured out already, Kass thought to herself.
Kass looked up at the building Theo had parked in front of. With a grand staircase out front, and towering columns holding up a classical façade, she had to admit that she'd always wanted to visit the National Library of Greece. Located in Athens, it was a two-and-a-bit hour drive from her dig site in Sikiona. She'd heard many things about the wonderful treasures inside. It was a pity that it took a manticore attack and a crazy historian to convince her to make the trek.
"What sort of answers are you hoping to find in there?" Kassandra asked. "Surely if you were trying to figure out how to restore Pandora's Box, your museum would be more useful." She turned and looked at Theo. She had spent the entire trip trying to get him to tell her something. Anything. He remained stoic, insisting he wouldn't tell her anything until he was sure of it himself. She could appreciate the caution, but her mind was racing, and even a suspicion would have given her something to cling to.
The only thing that Theo had conceded on was explaining that Pandora's Box was a genuine artefact. He refused to tell her how he knew, or why it was in that chamber, but he swore on the river Styx was real. Even though it was madness, the past forty-eight hours had shown her that the world wasn't as simple as it seemed. She'd seen plenty of pithos' before, but never one that chanted. It was much more comforting to believe that it was real than she was losing her hold on reality.
Theo's admission had silenced Kass for most of the journey. If Pandora's Box was real, then did it still hold Hope, as the myth claimed? And what happened now that it was broken? Kass vividly recalled that voice in her mind, the Greek words she somehow understood.
Elpidodotis.
Bringer of Hope.
"Are you still planning to join me?" Theo asked in that deep, liquid voice of his.
Kass blinked as she dragged herself out of her own sticky thoughts. She looked at the library again and nodded. Now that they were there, there was no way she would let him go in without her. "Yes, let's do this."
The sooner Kass had answers, the sooner she could get back to her normal life.
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The inside of the library was so beautiful that it rendered Kass speechless. After passing through the large columns and entering through the grand front doors, the inside of the library opened up to four stories of bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling. Warm early afternoon light cascaded in through the glass ceiling, making the internal Grecian columns glow with an almost other-worldly light. The caramel coloured timber tables beneath that glorious ceiling were full of people quietly reading or tapping away on their computers.
