Never trust the gods, is the first rule she should have learned. For all his sun-bright smile and cocky demeanor, he was no better than the rest of them.
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Death was as cold as she remembered.
SHE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT THE FIRST LIE, came from only one god she knew - Hercules, the supposed divine protector of mankind. The madness had changed him, even as he climbed the stairs to Olympus, to join the council of Gods, to oversee the Mortals.
Charon awaited her on the shores.
Above her, in the land of the living, the Gods descended upon Death and Night -- Hercules with them, in his Nemean Lion skull and fur. And her body, cold and lifeless, devoid of a soul.
The lies of Hercules is that he would watch over her, yet he only stepped over her, another Mortal to him, no love for the woman he once knew in a past life.
Perhaps it wasn't the lies of just the gods, but the lies of love, as well.
