Mad.
She was mad, mad, mad.
Her head spun from the sheer injustice of it all
This BOY
This boy that she died for
Betrayed her.
And if she was completely and totally honest with herself,
Well, that hurt.
She had believed in him.
She saw herself, walking up the aisle, becoming Mrs. Luke Castellan,
Saying "I do."
Glowing, glowing from joy.
Now she glowed from hatred.
He left.
And she couldn't believe it.
She woke up from her sleep
(such a wonderful sleep!)
To find that he was gone.
Gone.
And instantly, all her dreams
Her beautiful wedding
Her children
Her future
Collapsed into ashes at her feet.
And she couldn't put them back together.
So she was mad.
And she ran, as far as she could go.
Crying.
She was alone again,
Abandoned by the one person she had depended upon most.
So when she was offered immortality
Offered a chance to be lieutenant of Artemis,
She took it.
She found a new family.
One that would never leave.
One that would never hurt her,
Abandon her,
Crush her.
"I pledge myself to the goddess Artemis…"
And only then was she at peace.
Her anger was gone.
But there was only a hole in her heart that he had carved out.