Chapter 1
July 1, 2022
The daughter of Zeus was familiar with grief as she was an Immortal. Her childhood had been full of turmoil. Suffering at the hands of her own mother, abandoned by her father, seeing him but one time before finding love for the first time in the eyes of her baby brother. Only to end up being able to care for him for a mere two years before another goddess took him away.
She then found family in a son of Hermes and a young daughter of Athena. Just to have them taken away by the father that had turned her aside when she herself was turned into a tree, supposedly to save her. Later she watched her dear friends die in the first war of her life. She had gotten her younger brother back and met an enigma of a girl, a strong leader with a warrior's spirit. She hadn't even had the chance to get to know them before they were all thrust into another war that almost took them again.
She had thought her grief was highest when she lost more than half of her huntresses in battle. Then again, when her younger siblings in all but name, died and left her their daughter. Now she had finally found the worst kind of pain, one she never thought she would experience, what with her vows.
She hadn't thought at 16 about the implications of "I will not lay with men" She laughed bitterly, what good the loophole did her now, she thought as she lay in her tent crying. Singed with holes in her uniform and a nasty gash across her left arm. For now, she would let others take the lead so that she could grieve, a process with which she had become all too accustomed to. Immortality would allow her more than enough time for vengeance, and she had learned to lock her heart far from anyone new.