Sorry for the spaced updated. It sort of slipped my mind. I don't really have an update scheduled planned yet... When I do, it'll show up on the story summary.
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Thalia walked up to the imposing-looking double doors that were more than twice her height. There were the largest ring handles Thalia had ever seen in her life. The diameter of them were a lot bigger than her head.
At first, she considered bashing through the doors, but she decided to open them normally this time.
If that didn't work, then she'll bash through it.
Her hands grabbed the rings, preparing to use her entire strength to open them if needed. Admittedly, Thalia felt a bit anxious, the palms of her hands felt slightly moist, but there was no use worrying about it.
Pulling on the rings, it anticlimactically opened like any other door, somewhat disappointingly Thalia looked around at the interior. Despite the outside appearing quite large, the inside was much smaller than she expected. Usually, it was the other way around.
The outside looking much smaller than the inside, since you know... Godly powers and all. But apparently that wasn't the case here.
Anyways, the first thing she noticed was the large stone slab in the middle with a statue of a sleeping person. He looked around the same age as her, maybe older considering that gods could look however young they wanted to be.
The first thought that she had was that this place was some sort of grave because of how coincidentally she came here. Thalia wouldn't have even known that this place if she hadn't stuck that tree with lightning.
Other than that, there was nothing else noteworthy about the room, which really confused Thalia.
How the hell was she supposed to get out of here?
Actually now that she looked, it was about the size of her cabin, the dimensions were uncannily similar.
For some reason, Thalia felt cozy. It wasn't too large, but it wasn't tiny either. Something felt just right.
Like she'd been here before.
A wave of drowsiness came over her.
Man... I'm feeling really tired right now.
Her eyelids drooping lower and lower.
She moved onto the slab without thinking much about it. It was quite large and could easily hold five people with free space in-between.
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"Are you in this dream too?" The voice was hardly audible, but despite that Thalia woke up.
She couldn't quite remember what she'd heard and brushed it off as a dream. Thalia stretched and twisted her body, her spine making some popping sounds.
Blinking away the drowsiness, her eyes began to focus, and her mind awakened.
The door to the shrine was closed. She didn't remember closing the door. Although odd, Thalia figured that she must've closed it before taking a nap.
Speaking of taking a nap, she wondered what time it was.
She went to open the door, but this time it was a little harder to open. Last time, it just opened like any old door, but she guessed that it made sense considering how old the place seemed to be.
Harsh shades of light flooded in, forcing Thalia to cover her eyes trying to let them adjust. It was good to know that the sun worked as usual in this place.
A shadow was off in the distance, sitting down on the grass. The light made it hard to tell, but as she got used to the light she could sort of make out some guy just sitting there.
He wasn't doing anything particular, not like there was anything to do in the first place. There was only landscape and this shrine.
Wait. There's a guy here?
"HEY YOU!"
His head snapped in her direction.
He looked like your typical surfer guy, slightly tanned, windswept hair, a little buff. Well actually, she couldn't really tell due to the distance between them, but it looked that way...
Anyways, his bluish-green irises glanced in her general direction before his head turned back.
Thalia heard a voice that sounded like it was coming from her own head.
"Must've been hallucinating..."
Her first thought was that he might'e been blind, but that voice that came out of nowhere confused her.
He looked vaguely familiar. Although, she didn't feel like she actually knew the guy, but there was a sense of familiarity. She had seen him before but just where was it?
That was when everything clicked for her.
That guy looked exactly like the statue.
She turned back to the shrine towards the stone statue that she saw lying down on the slab, but there was nothing there. It was gone.
Wait. Then that was?
Spinning her body towards the male again, her knees suddenly gave out, causing her to fall to the ground.
Except, the ground was different than what she expected.
Her hands were grabbing onto dirt and branches.
She picked herself off the ground and saw the scenery of the forest she was in before.
"What the Hades?"