Chapter 34. Fall of Selene, Rise of Psyche

Dark red liquid splattered on her face was dripping slowly from her chin… her own child’s blood… Her Marian.

Selene sat on her knees, all alone in the middle of nowhere, nobody by her side…all alone, broken and tossed aside, her body limp as she looked ahead, her eyes unfocused, tears streaming down her face.

Her child was murdered, her Marian brutally thrown to beasts of night, such cruelty bestowed upon a mere child, naked and cold, her lifeless body nowhere to be found.

She had screamed for him for help, begged to let her only child live, he betrayed her.

Her god betrayed her.

Hades.

She got up trembling, her feet covered with thorns piercing the creamy skin as she paid it little heed walking toward the place she swore never to step a foot inside…the altar of Zeus and Hera.

A fire was burning by the far end of the temple, beside the sacred shrine. Selene dragged her battered body toward the fire.

“I, Selene, the loyal priestess of G