“It’s all right to cry,” Hermes said, and started to cry himself. “We’re both down a sister today.”
(Down, but not lost.)
Hermes blinked as the familiar, air-through-bellows voice whispered inside his head. He almost smelled her: a faint cloud of dust upon the wind.
(You can’t think that those girls would succumb to wind and water. Those girls who defy everything. The instrument of Fate. The goddess born against the gods.)
The faintest hint of a smile curled in the corner of Hermes’ mouth.
“Aunt Demeter?”
TOR BOOKS BY KENDARE BLAKE
Anna Dressed in Blood
Girl of Nightmares
Antigoddess
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KENDARE BLAKE holds an M.A. in creative writing from Middlesex University in northern London. She is the critically acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood, Girl of Nightmares, and Antigoddess. She lives and writes in Lynnwood, Washington.