Author's Note / Spoiler Alert

This work is about (and told from the POV of) an original character I developed. I wrote another story that gives a lot of background to this one, and it's told from Nico's and Will's perspectives. So you may want to go to my profile and check out Dead Silence before reading on.

Or not. I won't tell you what to do.

But if you are interested in that prequel, there are big spoilers ahead. And I do mean immediately ahead.

You have been warned. :)

Happy reading!


My name is Dante Morelli, although some people call me Dante di Angelo. I'm the only child of Thanatos, the God of Death.

When I was four, my mother and I were drowned in the ocean, but my father bartered with Hades and brought me back.

When I was seven, I traveled from the Wolf House to New Rome, where I met my new parents: Nico, a son of Hades, and Will, a son of Apollo.

When I was ten, I joined the legion, and I developed close friendships with a daughter of Hephaestus and a legacy of Mercury and Minerva.

When I was sixteen, I was presented with a terrible choice: to save my home and my loved ones, or to save myself.

I chose them...and I had to leave them all behind.

This is my story.