Chapter one: Her Silence.
Arianna POV:
Her Silence
Never ever mistake her silence for weakness.
Remember that sometimes the air stills,
before the onset of a hurricane.
I was never born this way. Silent. Forbidden to ever speak in this world. It happened when I was seven years old.
The accident. Is what they called it. Bad luck. But I knew better.
It was raining hard that night. My mother had just picked me up from my friend's house. His name was Sam. He was my only friend at that time. Little did I know that that was the last time I would ever see him again. I was telling my mother about what we did at his house, you see back then, I would never stop talking.
My mother would grin at me from the rearview mirror.
I was in the middle of telling her about the intense game of hide-and-seek we had when a large boulder hit the roof off of our car, pinning my mother from above. We lived in San Francisco at the time, and we were driving on the edge of a riven so everyone blamed it on a rockslide or something, but I thought differently. The rock had made our car swerve out of control. It did a complete 180 and slammed into the guard rails on the side of the road.
It felt as if the world had slowed down. Another boulder hit the car, on my side this time and glass flew everywhere. I had been screaming at the top of my lungs the whole time, of course, I was only seven.
My mother was slumped against the steering wheel, blood pouring down the side of her face. She wouldn't answer me.
I looked out my window and screamed for help. A man walked up to my window, I almost cried from relief. But then I realized something. This man was not human. He had long black/green deadlocks and was a good 8 feet tall. The man smiled at me, showing me his rotting teeth. I screamed again, his legs were not human legs, but he had lizard legs. And his hair was not in dreadlocks, but live snakes. Writhing and squirming, flicking their tongues.
I tried to unbuckle my seatbelt and get away from him, but he was quicker. He reached through the broken window and grabbed me by the neck. I choked and gagged, but he tightened his grip and grinned wickedly.
"Take this as a warning little Neptun spawn." he spat. Little black dots were dancing in front of my eyes. "If you help the little greek camp win in the battle that's yet to come, I will kill all of the people you love and care for. And ill make sure you'll be watching." My vision tunneled and everything turned black.
I woke up in the hospital. There was a nurse in the room with a sympathetic look on her face. She told me the bad news. My mother had died in the accident, buy trama to her head. And I somehow got glass in my throat and it tore up my voicebox, I would never be able to speak again. Forever silent. Mute.