Chapter 1, part four.
Aftermath

"Eos!" Cried Iris, running forward to her friend in a panic after she stood outside the cave, screaming for help as she listened to the interior collapse with her friends still within it. She became even more startled as Eos staggered out into the light, crying herself as her hands and clothes were covered in blood. "Where's Hector?!"

Eos, her face blank though crying relentlessly, couldn't even bare to speak of Hector's demise.
"… He was… was right there… he was… right behind me…"

"Well I don't see him!" Iris exclaimed, shaking her friend now. "Who's blood is that? Is that yours?!"

"Juno, she… I think she made the cave collapse…." Eos muttered, looking down with her shocked white hues as she began to try and remove the blood lingering on her hands. Her breathing increased when she noticed she was just making it worse. "He should've followed you out the cave!"

"He's still in there?!" Iris speculated. "By the Gods, HELP!" She then shrieked, her own panic not helping the situation as the ground continued to tremor around them.

"She showed me things, Iris!" Eos then blurted out, grabbing her friend, staining her clothes with the fresh blood. "Things to do with King Leonidas!"

"HELP!" Iris continued to scream, taking no notice of the words Eos was spouting. Putting it down to shock and that she was just hallucinating.

"Ladies, in Zeus's name, get down from there!" Came the barking order of passing guards, who had come from the market district within Sparta to investigate the rumble. "I won't ask you both again!"

"No, wait, please! You must help! Irish ran down to the patrolling men, wearing the usual Spartan armour, which barely covered their bodies at all. "Our friend, he's still in there!"

"…He's not…" Eos spoke out as she followed Iris down the hill, holding her hands out in front of her which brought attention from the guards.

"What are you talking about?!" Iris asked her. Though she most likely knew of the answer, she did not want to accept it for she and Hector were very close. "Eos!"

"Ma'am." One guard spoke out. "I need to ask you who's blood that is."

"He pushed me side…. He pushed me aside!" Eos bellowed, becoming ever more panicked by the situation at hand.

"Ma'am!" The guard hissed, grabbing the hilt of his sword. "I'll ask again, who's blood is that?"

"No, no… No!" Iris cried, covering her mouth. "You left him in there? To die? Is that his blood?!"

"No, Iris, you have to believe me! It was the debris from above us. It was Juno, she caused it to happen!"

"There is no Juno, Eos!" Iris argued. "She's in your head! Whenever we went near that cave, you always started acting out of character! Now look what has happened! Hector is dead because you wouldn't leave the unknown to what it should have been. Unknown!"

"I didn't-!" Eos breathed, her eyes shifting from Iris to the guards. "I didn't kill him, I swear it!"

"Ma'am, if you claim it was debris that killed him, how has his blood come to be upon your being?" The guard questioned, as the other two with him drew their swords. Women were treat just as equally as then men here in Sparta. They were showing no leniency here. "I'm going to have to ask you to calm down, ma'am."

"Wait, let me explain!" Eos begged, as one guard grabbed the bicep of her left arm. "I aca explain the blood!"

"Ah, this is Hera's daughter." The guard holding her pointed out. "The Witch of Sparta. Some say she conjured this one up as her daughter, which is why she has white eyes."

"Malaka, do you lot listen to everything you hear on the streets?" The first initial guard spoke. Most likely a Captain of some sort. He was a man of justice but even he couldn't figure out the truth in this matter. Though his two men with him clearly made up their own minds due to the conjured rumours revolving Eos's mother in Sparta itself.

"Eos, just tell them the truth!" Iris begged. "That you convinced me and Hector to go in there with you… Past the blockage…"

"What blockage?" The captain asked, his eyes shifting up to the cave upon the hill.

"There was some sort of… Weird light radiating from behind this mechanism in the cave…" Iris answered for both herself ad Eos. "She managed to get it to open and I still don't know how."

"Captain, isn't that the cave the King-."

"I know!" The captain quickly responded before his fellow guard was able to finish his sentence. "King Leonidas has been trying to find ways to get down into that cave for years. Said he felt someone calling out to him. Ma'am, I'm going to have to bring you with me. In fact, both of you need to come with me"

"Me as well?" Iris questioned in shock. "I'm not the one with blood on my hands here!"

"This has become more than your friend dying in there, ma'am." The captain responded, having his other man grab a hold of Iris, despite her struggle under his hold. "The King himself is going to want to know what you both saw down there."

"I had nothing to do with this!" Iris spat. "It was her! This is all her fault!"