Scales and Steel
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Last published Mon, Jun 12, 2017
Balance, something hard to attain, and even harder to sustain. Almost like walking a sword's edge, everyone waits with baited breath to see if you will be able to walk along it, or if you will fall to the side.
It is infinitely harder when you must oversee the balance of other people, but to try and force it upon gods? Impossible, or so most think.
Artemis must find a balance of her own, in her duty. First though, she must discover what her new duties are.
She has gone from a student studying in Greece to an embodiment of retribution, the successor of Nemesis herself. Another task for the list, how does a goddess die?
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