“This is a surprise…” It felt like my heart was literally beating a mile a minute, felt like it was forcing its’ way up my throat slowly but surely. It felt like my throat was seconds away from catching fire, like I was moments away from bursting into tears—which was strange, considering the fact that I had no reason to be upset. My brothers’ were here, and they were reacting a million times better than my father had, and therefore, I should have been overjoyed. But I wasn’t. I was scared. Almost as scared as I was of Hades, but still fractionally off mark. My gut told me that it was simply nerves, simply the fact that I hadn’t been here in just over five years. Who knows what they had gone through during that time, what they had endured without me being here to support