Prologue

POV- Eurydice/Helen

I was booking it through a forest in the middle of the night, running for my life.

Again.

I sprinted faster than I ever had before trying desperately to ignore the dry hiss and heavy rasp of my breathing. Tears of fear and frustration mingled with sweat on my face and stung the scratches inflicted by the foliage I was flying like one of Zeus's lightning bolts past. But I knew I was almost finished. I was slowing, and too tired to scream...

A rebellious, hateful seeming tree root caught my ankles, digging in like a hell hound's teeth. I slammed into the ground with a groan. Blackness tugged at my thoughts, trying to pull me into unconsciousness, but I pushed it away, and when my vision cleared, I was glad I couldn't scream, because I was shocked enough to.

There was another girl lying next to me, also panting, with glazed eyes that flickered between ice blue, forest green, and black. Long raven hair clung to her damp face and curled around her waist like a python.

She coughed pitifully, and I did as well. It was a chain reaction of sorts, like yawning, maybe.

She slowly staggered to her feet, and finally held out a hand, which I gratefully took.

It looked like it took actual effort to pull me from the ground, like every muscle in her body hurt as much as mine did.

She glanced in the direction I had been running from, and her eyes reflected red, though she didn't look angry, just accepting.

"He'll never stop coming for you," she rasped, but she sounded like she was also being chased by my fiery doom. She couldn't have been more than fifteen or sixteen, but she sounded older... Eons older....

She turned towards the bright fire that chased and tormented me, and calmly walked towards her death.

I finally found the energy to scream, and I did so as I woke with a jolt.