Kali:
I woke in the night soaked in the remnants of my heat's last fever.
Nightmares had plagued my mind from the moment I closed my eyes tonight.
Doris, the Clearwater I left behind, the war, and the death—they all surged through my mind like a relentless tide, a beacon calling me back to a place I never, ever wanted to return to. The internal battle between my past and present, my desires and fears, raged on, threatening to consume me.
Knowing what awaited me in sleep, I crawled from the bed, showered, and settled into the kitchen with coffee and the book my mother had been warned never to let me hold. This was the book Cronus had searched land and sea for, the book that held the key to the worst possible fate I could think of for myself. I opened it to the spell he needed and tor
