the statue in the sea

*this is part 2 of the mark of the Sun*

When archaeologists raise an ancient statue from the depths of the Aegean Sea, they expect history-what they find is revelation. The statue doesn't just echo a myth; it rewrites it. Not as it was told, but as it was lived.

This is where Nico enters.

A young excavator on the team, Nico has always felt a pull toward the forgotten corners of Greece-toward stories buried under stone and salt. But nothing prepares him for the moment he locks eyes with the statue's face: a face that feels uncannily like his own. The sensation is more than recognition. It's a rupture. A stirring in his blood. A key turning in the lock of something ancient inside him.
Nico must confront the truth that some myths were never meant to remain stories. That what was submerged was not just marble and memory, but power-and maybe even destiny. Because the statue isn't just a relic of the past. It's a mirror. And it's waking up.