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00:00I was born with a large chest
00:02All the men in the forest covet my body
00:05The fairies say I am cursed
00:09Because my mother was a priestess of the Moon Temple
00:12Who died while giving birth to me
00:14And until the end, she never revealed who my father was
00:18The priestesses therefore see me as an ill omen
00:22Treat me as a slave
00:24And have forbidden me from looking directly into the eyes of men
00:42I didn't know what stepping out of line meant
00:45All I knew was the ache in my chest
00:48From the bindings they made me wear
00:50In summer, the fabric rubbed my skin raw
00:54In winter, the coat turned my fingers blue
00:57But no matter how tight I rapped
01:00Those two stubborn mouths pushed through
01:02Refusing to disappear
01:03I cried into the spring more times than I could count
01:07Begging my mother to tell me why she gave me this body
01:11The spring never answered
01:14Only the wind rustling through the laurel leaves
01:16Everything changed on the spring evening
01:21Everything changed on the spring evening
01:25Haleas' chariot had just crossed the sky
01:27Painting the growl gold and rose
01:30I was walking back from the stream
01:32With a clay jug on my shoulder
01:34Water sloshing
01:35When I heard sounds coming from the olive grove behind the temple
01:39Muffled sounds
01:40The kind you're not supposed to hear
02:11I put down the jug and crept closer
02:12He had Taya by the chin
02:14Tilting her old face up to his
02:16Tell me
02:19Who's the most beautiful niff in this grove?
02:24The moon goddesses handmaidens
02:27No
02:28He let her go
02:29His gaze sweeping past her
02:31Past the olive branches
02:33Past the floating dust moats
02:35In the golden light
02:36And landing straight on me
02:39My blood turned cold
02:41His eyes moved down my face
02:43Past my trembling lips
02:45And stopped at my chest
02:47Pressed tight against the edge of the clay jug
02:50Rising and falling
02:51With every panicked breath
02:53You
02:54He walked toward me
02:56And with every step
02:58The leaves on the ground
02:59Seemed to shrink back
03:01What's your name?
03:04Vena
03:06Vena
03:06He wrote the name across his tongue
03:09Like he was tasting it
03:10The corner of his mouth lifted
03:12Are you afraid of me?
03:14I nodded
03:15Then shook my head
03:18His scent was too much
03:20Iron and blood
03:21The smell of a battlefield
03:23It made my knees weak
03:27I'm Eris
03:28God of war
03:30I knew who he was
03:32Son of Zeus and Hera
03:34Every nymph
03:35Knew the stories
03:36Once a god like him
03:38Set his sights on you
03:39There was no escape
03:41My knees buckled
03:43The clay jug
03:44Sipped from my fingers
03:46Iris reached out
03:47His fingers hooked
03:49The strip of fabric
03:50Binding my chest
03:51Moving so slowly
03:52I had all the time
03:54In the world to run
03:55But I didn't
03:56I couldn't
03:58He pulled
03:59The linen tore
04:01Like butterfly wings
04:02My body
04:03Bound and concealed
04:05For seventeen years
04:06Lay uncovered
04:08In the twilight
04:09Exposed to his gaze
04:10To the fading sunlight
04:12And the evening breeze
04:14I gasped
04:15Tried to move back
04:16But my feet
04:18Wouldn't obey
04:19His ember eyes
04:20Filled with something
04:21I didn't understand
04:22Something hungry
04:23And wild
04:24Like a man
04:25Who'd been walking
04:26Through a desert
04:27For a thousand years
04:28And finally found water
04:30Taya
04:31You were right
04:33This body
04:33Really is cursed
04:37He paused
04:38Bent his head
04:40And brought his nose
04:41Within the breath
04:42Of my collarbone
04:43Cursed by me
04:45He inhaled
04:46The warmth of his breath
04:48Hit my skin
04:49Setting off a ripple
04:51Of goosebumps
04:51Down my neck
04:52My arms
04:53My spine
04:56You smell like
04:57Spring
04:59I shoved him
05:00I don't know
05:01Where the strength
05:02Came from
05:02But my palms
05:03Hit his chest
05:04Solid
05:05I felt his heartbeat
05:06Loud and fast
05:08Just like a mortal man
05:10I staggered back
05:12Stumbling over shards
05:13Of the broken jug
05:14Blood welled
05:15From my foot
05:16But I didn't feel it
05:19Don't touch me
05:21I screamed
05:23Airs didn't follow
05:24He stood there
05:26Watching me flee
05:27Watching my hair
05:28Whip in the wind
05:29Watching my bare shoulders
05:31Disappear into the trees
05:34Then he bent down
05:35And picked up
05:36The torn strip of linen
05:37Still warm from my skin
05:39He lifted it to his nose
05:42Thinner
05:43The sound followed me
05:45Through the olive grove
05:46Through the laurel trees
05:47Through the dying light
05:48It sank into my bones
05:50That night
05:52Every nymph in the grove
05:54Heard me crying
05:55I caught up in the darkest corner
05:57Of the moon temple
05:58Moonlight falling cold
06:00Through the high windows
06:01I tried to wrap my chest again
06:03With the torn cloth
06:04But my fingers shook too badly
06:06To tie the knots
06:07Tears soaked my knees
06:09My dress
06:10The stone floor
06:12Teya found me
06:14The marks from
06:16Airs' fingers
06:17Were still fresh on her cheek
06:19Purple and swollen
06:20She looked down at me
06:23With eyes that held
06:24Nothing but disgust
06:26You think you can run from this?
06:28When a god like Airs
06:30Wants something
06:32No one stops him
06:34No one
06:36I looked up through my tears
06:37She bent down
06:39Close enough
06:40That her lips
06:41Almost touched my ear
06:42I heard Airs was badly wounded
06:45And Troy
06:45A spear went through his thigh
06:48Right through the tendon
06:50She didn't finish
06:52She didn't need to
06:53A god who couldn't perform
06:57Lucky you
06:59Better a broken god
07:01Than a beast
07:04At least you won't have to bear children
07:07She patted my cheek
07:10Besides
07:10They say men
07:11Who can't do it in bed
07:12Make up for it
07:13In other ways
07:14I don't want to marry her
07:16Don't want?
07:17Who do you think you are?
07:19A bastard
07:20With no father
07:23Airs wants you
07:24That's more than you deserve
07:26If it weren't for that body of yours
07:28That slut's body
07:29A war god wouldn't even look at you
07:30I cried again
07:32That night
07:33I dreamed
07:34Airs' hands moved up my legs
07:37And everywhere he touched
07:39My skin caught fire
07:41His lips pressed against my stomach
07:45And I heard his voice
07:47Low and shaking
07:53I woke
07:54Soaked in sweat
07:55My hair was plastered to my face
07:58My neck
07:59The blanket had slid to the floor
08:01Between my legs
08:03A heat I'd never felt before
08:05Spreading through me like spring flats
08:07Breaking through ice
08:09I bit my lap
08:11Until I tasted blood
08:12Shame shook me down to my bones
08:15Outside
08:16The moon hung cold in the sky
08:18The next day
08:19A messenger came to the grove
08:21Not Aerith
08:22That Athena
08:23She wore golden armor
08:25An owl's crest on her helmet
08:27Her eyes were sharp and gray
08:29The color of winter seas
08:31Her presence alone
08:32Made you want to bow
08:34You're Athena?
08:37Yes
08:38Ares sent me to get you
08:40He's wounded
08:41Recovering on Olympias
08:42He wants to marry you
08:46I don't
08:47Athena was quiet for a moment
08:49In that silence
08:50Something flickered across her face
08:52A crack
08:53In the divine perfection
08:54Something almost soft
08:55Do you know why Ares chose you?
09:00Because you're the only niff
09:02In this grove
09:03Who wasn't afraid of him
09:04You pushed him
09:06No one has ever pushed
09:08The god of war
09:09I stared at her
09:10Well
09:11You're also very beautiful
09:13But that's not the point
09:14She held out her hand
09:16In her palm
09:17Lay a silver ring
09:18Plain and unandorned
09:20Glowing faintly
09:20In the morning light
09:21Put this on
09:22Hefexis made it
09:23It'll hide your form
09:25Make you less noticeable
09:27I slid the ring onto my finger
09:28It tightened to fit
09:30Cold spread up
09:31From my knuckles
09:32Washing over my whole body
09:34When I looked down
09:35My curve seemed softer
09:36Blurred at the edges
09:37Like looking through
09:38Fosseted glass
09:39Come on
09:40Olympus is waiting
09:42I followed her
09:43Out of the grove
09:46Serve him well
09:48Thena
09:48Don't forget
09:49You're nothing but a bastard
09:51No one's daughter
09:52No one's anything
09:54I didn't look back
09:55The golden chariot
09:56Toast through the clouds
09:57Thought
09:58Then Olympus
09:59Rose up ahead of us
10:00Higher than any mountain
10:02In the world
10:03White marble columns
10:04Caught the sunlight
10:06And threw it back
10:07Dazzling
10:08I never thought
10:09I'd see this place
10:10A nobody
10:11Nym
10:11A bastard girl
10:12Eris' temple
10:13Stood on the eastern slope
10:14Facing the sunrise
10:16I'm not going in
10:17Eris doesn't like me
10:19If he gets angry
10:20Run
10:20If you can't outrun him
10:22Shout
10:22I nodded
10:23I nodded
10:24And walked toward the bronze doors
10:27They were carved with battle scenes
10:29Chariots
10:30Spears
10:31Fullen soldiers
10:32When I pushed
10:33They swung open on their own
10:36Inside
10:37The air was dim and heavy
10:39Thick with the smell of medicine
10:41And blood
10:42At the end of a long corridor
10:44I found his room
10:45Eris lay propped against the headboard
10:47His white robe did nothing
10:48To hide the lines of muscle
10:50Across his chest
10:51But his face was too pale
10:54You came
10:55I stood in the doorway
10:57Athena gave you that?
10:58She's kind
11:00Annoying but kind
11:01I didn't answer
11:03Come here
11:04I still didn't move
11:06I don't bite
11:08Not right now anyway
11:09I walked to the edge of the bed
11:11He tilted his head back
11:13Watching me
11:15His ember eyes held my reflection
11:17Small
11:18Scared
11:19Wrapped
11:20In thick wool
11:21You're afraid of me?
11:24Yes
11:25Why?
11:26Because of what they say
11:28He was quiet for a moment
11:29Then his hands shut out
11:30And closer on my wrist
11:32His fingers were hot
11:33Like iron pulled from a forge
11:35I flinched
11:36But he didn't tighten his grip
11:38He just held my hand
11:39Turning it over in his
11:41Looking at the lines on my palm
11:43Your hands are cold
11:44Like mine
11:46I didn't know how to answer
11:47He let go
11:48One finger at a time
11:49Like he didn't want to
11:51You'll sleep there tonight
11:52I can't do much anyway
11:57I'll have clothes brought for you
11:58You can take the west room tomorrow
11:59More light
12:01All right
12:02A servant came to take me to the baths
12:06When I looked back at the doorway
12:08Ares had closed his eyes again
12:11His face was blank
12:13Expressionless
12:14Like a statue that had been shattered
12:16And glued back together
12:18That night I lay on the couch
12:21Listening to his breathing
12:22And couldn't sleep
12:23Moonlight crept through the windows
12:25And sprayed across his face
12:27Asleep
12:27He didn't look like the god of war
12:30He just looked like a wounded boy
12:32No older than the men
12:33I'd glimpsed at the edges of the grove
12:35I turned to face the wall
12:36Pressing my face into the pillow
12:39In my head
12:40A thought kept circling back
12:41When he had held my wrist that first night
12:43His thumb had traced the lines of my palm
12:45Light almost not there
12:47But it had been there
12:48I didn't know when I fell asleep
12:50Half dreaming
12:51Something warm touched the back of my neck
12:53I rolled over and opened my eyes into amber
12:56Ares stood beside the couch
12:59His hair fell forward
13:01Brushing my cheek
13:02Moonlight painted his silhouette
13:04The broad shoulders
13:05The straight nose
13:06The long line of his jaw
13:08I tried to speak
13:09But no sound came
13:10He didn't say anything either
13:12He just looked at me
13:13His hand rose
13:14Hovering over my face
13:16His fingers trembling
13:17He didn't touch me
13:18Sleep
13:19I watched him go
13:20My heart slamming against my ribs
13:22That night
13:23I dreamed I stood on a battlefield
13:25That night
13:26I dreamed I stood on a battlefield
13:28The sky rad as blood
13:30The ground cracking beneath my feet
13:32Ares came riding out to the clouds
13:34In a golden chariot
13:35He held out his hand
13:36I didn't run
13:37He pulled me up
13:38Onto the chariot
13:39Wrapped his arms around me
13:40Pulled me back against his chest
13:42His heartbeat
13:43Was a drum against my spine
13:45Do you know why
13:46I chose you?
13:49Because you pushed me away
13:52Everyone wants something from me
13:53Power, protection, my name
13:55Everyone wants to use me
13:57But you
13:58You were the one who didn't want me
14:01So I want you
14:03I woke gasping
14:04Drenched in sweat
14:05Outside
14:06The sun was up
14:08Ares' bed was empty
14:09The servant who bought my water
14:11Told me the war guard
14:12Had already gone to the training grounds
14:14Even wounded
14:15He never missed a day
14:16In the bronze mirror
14:17I studied my reflection
14:19The ring still worked
14:20I thought
14:21But the edges of my shape
14:22Were starting to come through again
14:24My breasts pushed against the wall
14:25My waist curved in
14:27I wrapped the bondings tighter
14:29One turn
14:30Two
14:30Three
14:31Until I could barely breathe
14:33Ares came back at midday
14:35I was in the kitchen
14:36Standing over a bronze cauldron
14:38Stirring the herbal broth
14:39I'd learned to make from my mother's notes
14:43What's that?
14:44Medicine
14:46For your leg
14:47He came up behind me
14:48Close enough that I could feel the heat coming off him
14:50You know how to do this?
14:52I learnt
14:53My mother knew healing
14:54He didn't ask anything else
14:56He picked up the cup
14:58And drank
15:00How is it?
15:02Terrible
15:03I watched him drink
15:04And for a moment
15:05I thought maybe the god of war
15:07Wasn't as frightening as they said
15:09I was wrong about that
15:10That evening
15:11I was in my room
15:12Unpacking the clothes
15:13Athena had sent
15:14When I heard footsteps in the hall
15:16Heavy and uneven
15:17Like an animal dragging
15:19A wounded leg
15:20I opened the door
15:21Ares was braced against the wall
15:23His face slick with sweat
15:24His right leg trembled
15:26Blood was seeping through his bandages
15:27Running down his calf
15:29Pooling on the marble floor
15:46He said cripple
15:47Like it was a knife
15:48Twisting in his gut
15:49I didn't argue
15:49I half carried him back to his room
15:51His weight almost too much
15:53And laid him on the bed
15:54I found the healer's salve
15:55And unwrapped the blood-soaked bandages
15:57The wound was worse than I'd imagined
15:59A long, twisted scar
16:01Ran down the inside of his thigh
16:03Where the Trojan spear had gone through
16:05My fingers brushed the scar
16:07Arrows went rigid
16:12Does it hurt?
16:13He didn't answer
16:14He was staring at me
16:16His amber eyes wild
16:17Keep looking at me like that
16:18And I can't promise what I'll do
16:20Thought my face went hot
16:22My hands stopped moving
16:24I'm just...
16:25I'm putting on the salve
16:27I know
16:28Just finish and get out
16:30I worked fast
16:31When I was done
16:32I practically ran out of the room
16:35Behind the closed door
16:37I heard a dull thud
16:39His fist hitting the wall
16:41I leaned against the wood
16:42Heart pounding
16:43And listened to him breathing on the other side
16:45Days passed
16:47I made the medicine every morning
16:49Changed his bandages twice a day
16:52Read him the dispatches from the war councils
16:55Some days he was angry
16:57Some days he was silent
16:59When he was angry
17:00He threw things
17:02Once he threw a cup
17:04So hard
17:05It shattered against the wall
17:06And a shard cut my cheek
17:08He saw the blood
17:10And went still
17:11His whole body locking up
17:13Then he closed his eyes and said
17:15Leave
17:17I left
17:20When he was silent
17:21He sat by the window for hours
17:24Watching the clouds
17:25Sometimes he watched me
17:27His gaze was heavy
17:28But not threatening
17:30It was like he was trying to memorize the shape of my face
17:33The line of my brow
17:34The curve of my mouth
17:36Like he was afraid he'd wake up one morning and forget
17:39We never touched
17:41No
17:42He made sure not to touch
17:44Sometimes when I leaned down to hand him his cup
17:48I could feel his eyes on my chest
17:51My hands would shake
17:53And a drop of the dark liquid would fall on his skin
17:57He'd look at it for a long moment
17:59Then wipe it with his thumb
18:01And bring it to his lips
18:04Sweet
18:05He'd say
18:07Sometimes when I passed him in the hallway
18:09His fingers would lift
18:10Just barely
18:11Like he was thinking about reaching for me
18:14But he never did
18:16One day
18:17Hera came
18:20The queen of the gods
18:21Swept into the temple
18:23With her whole rat knew
18:25Wearing purple robes
18:26And a golden crown
18:27Her presence
18:29Like a weight in the air
18:30I hear you married a nymph
18:33She said
18:34Looking me up and down
18:35This one?
18:37Ares grunted from his bed
18:39Hera crossed to me
18:40Lifted my chin
18:41With her cold fingers
18:43Studied my face
18:44Pretty enough
18:45With the figure
18:46Her gaze dropped to my chest
18:48And her mouth tightened
18:50Who was your mother?
18:52A priestess of Artemis
18:53Which priestess?
18:55And your father?
18:56Hera's smile was sharp
18:58I shook my head
18:59She turned back to Ares
19:00A nobody nymph
19:01A bastard
19:03Not a fitting wife
19:04For a god of Olympias
19:06Ares' voice went flat
19:07I marry who I want
19:08Ares' face darkened
19:10But she didn't push
19:11She swept out
19:13Pausing at the door
19:14To look back at me
19:15You know why
19:16Your mother's body
19:17Was like yours?
19:18She said
19:19Because she was a slut too
19:21She used that body
19:22To seduce someone
19:23She shouldn't have
19:24You're just what
19:25She left behind
19:54She left
19:57No one's ever
19:58No one's ever told me that before
20:29Ares was quiet for a long time
20:30And watched the sun set
20:31He sat on the left
20:32I sat on the right
20:34In arms length
20:35Between us
20:35He told me about the battles
20:37He'd fought
20:38I told him about the grove
20:40About Teo's cruelty
20:41About singing the hymns
20:42Off key
20:43And getting punished for it
20:44He scowled
20:45Like a child
20:46Do you know why
20:47I hate Athena?
20:48Why?
20:49Because she's always right
20:50Every time
20:52Annoying
20:53No matter what the subject
20:54She always has to be right
20:55He watched me
20:57His eyes softened
20:58In the fading light
20:59You have a beautiful laugh
21:01I stopped laughing
21:02He looked away
21:03But not before
21:04I saw his ears go pink
21:06That night
21:07I dreamed of him again
21:08His mouth on my neck
21:10His hands on my skin
21:12I woke up shaking
21:14My thighs slick with heat
21:16And bit my lips so hard
21:17I tasted copper
21:19Outside my door
21:20Footsteps
21:21I looked up
21:23And saw the shadow
21:24Of his back
21:25Retreating down the hole
21:26The next morning
21:27When I went to the kitchen
21:29To make his medicine
21:30I found flowers
21:31On the work table
21:32White anemones
21:34Their petals wet with dew
21:35Tied together
21:36With a piece of rough twine
21:38No note
21:39But I recognized
21:40The red clay
21:41Still clinging to the stems
21:43It came from the stream
21:44Behind the mountain
21:45With his leg
21:47It would have taken him
21:48An hour
21:49To walk there
21:49An hour
21:50To pick the flowers
21:52An hour
21:52To walk back
21:53I put them
21:54In a clay pot
21:55On the windowsill
21:57When I went
21:58Back to stirring
21:59The cauldron
21:59I couldn't stop smiling
22:01Spring was just beginning
22:03And something between us
22:05And something between us
22:05Had changed
22:05Something that started
22:07The day he first saw me
22:08In the olive grove
22:09Something that started
22:11When he tore away
22:12The bindings on my chest
22:13Something that started
22:15In the dark
22:15When he stood over me
22:17With his hand hovering
22:18By my face
22:19And didn't touch me
22:20Something that
22:21I finally understood
22:23Had already changed everything
22:26Eris' leg
22:27Got better
22:28But he still
22:29Didn't touch me
22:30I told myself
22:31It didn't matter
22:33I'd never wanted
22:34This marriage anyway
22:35What did it matter
22:37If he can
22:38That's what I told myself
22:40Until the evening
22:41By this stream
22:42I was washing clothes
22:43Kneeling on a flat rock
22:45I was bent forward
22:46And the color of my dress
22:47Had slipped open
22:48Without me noticing
22:50Thinner
22:50Eris' voice
22:52Came from behind me
22:53Rough as stone
22:54Scraping stone
22:55I turned
22:56He was standing
22:57Under a plane tree
22:57At the water's edge
22:59His amber eyes
23:00Were fixed on my chest
23:01Where the wet wool
23:02Clung to the shape
23:03Of my breasts
23:04I scrambled up
23:05He walked toward me
23:06Every step was heavy
23:08Deliberate
23:08I stepped back
23:09Slipped on the moss-lick stone
23:11And fell toward the water
23:12His arms shot out
23:14And caught me
23:14I slammed into his chest
23:16My body flushed against his
23:17We both went still
23:18His heart was hammering
23:20His breath came fast
23:21His chest heaving
23:24Eris
23:24He didn't let go
23:25His arms locked around my waist
23:28Don't move
23:29He buried his face
23:31In my neck
23:32His nose pressing
23:33Against my collarbone
23:34He inhaled
23:34The heat of his breath
23:36Spread across my skin
23:37And I shivered
23:38Do you know
23:38How long I've wanted this
23:40I couldn't think
23:42Since the first time
23:44I saw you
23:44Since you pushed me away
23:46His fingers dug into my waist
23:48Almost too hard
23:50Three thousand years
23:51No one's ever dared
23:52To push me
23:53You were the first
23:54He pulled back
23:56Just enough
23:57To look at me
23:58And this
24:00His gaze fell to my chest again
24:02Daddy tried to cover myself
24:04Daddy caught my wrist
24:05And pressed it against
24:06The tree trunk behind me
24:08Don't
24:08Let me see
24:10His fingers found the ties
24:11At my collar
24:12They were shaking
24:13Can I
24:14I didn't answer
24:16But I didn't push him away either
24:18He pulled
24:19The wet wool
24:20Slipped off my shoulders
24:21His breath stopped
24:22His eyes went dark with fire
24:25Thinner
24:25His fingers traced the line of my collarbone
24:28Moving down
24:30Aries
24:30He bent
24:32And pressed his lips
24:33To the curve
24:34Where my neck
24:34Met my shoulder
24:35Light
24:36Barely a kiss
24:37But my whole body
24:38Arched into it
24:39He looked up at me
24:40For once
24:41There was nothing
24:42Of the war god
24:43In his face
24:44Just tenderness
24:45Raw and open
24:46You're shaking
24:49So are you
24:50He smiled
24:52I'd never seen him
24:53Smile like that
24:55I'm scared
24:56You?
24:58That I'll hurt you
24:59That you'll cry
25:00That you'll push me away again
25:03I laughed
25:03He touched his forehead to mine
25:05Can I kiss you?
25:07I answered by pressing my mouth to his
25:10For a second
25:10He was frozen
25:11Then
25:12He came alive
25:13Pushing me back against the tree
25:14Kissing me like he'd been starving for it
25:16His tongue swiped into my mouth
25:18Claiming everything
25:19I clung to his hair
25:20Breathless
25:21He lifted me
25:22Wrapping my legs around his waist
25:24And I felt it
25:25The part of him
25:27The healers said would never work again
25:29I went still
25:30He went still
25:31We broke apart
25:32Breathing hard
25:33Staring at each other
25:36The healer said
25:38His face
25:39Cycled through confusion
25:41Disbelief
25:42And in a fierce
25:43Almost boyish delight
25:45I guess they were wrong
25:46His hands slid down to my hip
25:49Pressing me closer
25:51Eris
25:53What?
25:54You don't want to?
25:55He laughed
25:56And lifted me higher
25:57Carrying me back toward the temple
25:59Thought my spine hit the bronze doors with a boom
26:02That echoed across the valley
26:04The door
26:05Leave it
26:06He pushed me against it
26:08And kissed me again
26:09Harder this time
26:10His hands slid up my sides
26:12And found my chest through the thin wet cloth
26:15And my thoughts scattered
26:17I've wanted you since the moment I saw you
26:20His thumb brushed across the peak of my breast
26:22And the sound escaped my throat
26:24That I'd never heard myself make before
26:27More beautiful than I imagined
26:32He carried me to his bed
26:34Laid me down
26:35And stood over me in the moonlight
26:38In Olympus, gods aren't supposed to love
26:42Why?
26:44Because love is a weakness
26:46And the god of war can't be weak
26:48He lowered his head
26:50And pressed a kiss to my chest
26:53But you
26:56You're the one weakness I don't want to give up
26:59That night
27:00Every flower on Olympus
27:02Bloomed out of season
27:03Anemones
27:04Crocuses
27:05Hyacinths
27:06Laurel
27:07Doesn't hung thick in the air
27:09His mouth moved down my body
27:12His fingers
27:13Laced with mine
27:14Sweat beaded on his forehead
27:16Does it hurt?
27:18A little
27:19My nails
27:20Bit into his back
27:22He stopped
27:23Kissed the tears
27:25That had started at the corners of my eyes
27:28We can stop
27:29Don't
27:31I pulled him back
27:32Don't stop
27:32He looked at me with something like reverence in his eyes
27:36Alright
27:37The moon slipped behind a cloud
27:39That night
27:40All of Olympus heard the war god roar
27:43Not with battle rage
27:45But something else
27:46Something that sounded like a lion tamed
27:49Purring at his mate's ear
27:51In the morning
27:53Eris was already awake
27:55He lay propped against the headboard
27:57His fingers tangled in my hair
27:59Morning
28:00He said
28:01Smiling
28:02Morning
28:03I buried my face in the blanket
28:05He pulled it back
28:06What are you hiding for?
28:08You know why
28:10He laughed and hauled me up against his chest
28:13Watch the sun rise with me
28:15Every day
28:18Why?
28:19Because I want to see the beginning of every day with you
28:22From now on
28:25Everyone
28:25Outside
28:26The first light broke over Olympus
28:31Alright
28:32Deal
28:34I pressed my face to his chest
28:36Listening to his heart
28:39Deal
28:40Where it spread through Olympus
28:42Eris wasn't broken
28:43The healers were idiots
28:45And the god of war was fiercer in bed than on the battlefield
28:49I was limping out of the bedroom
28:52When I ran into Athena
28:54Leaning against a pillar in the hallway
28:56Looking amused
28:59I see
29:00Glancing at the marks on my neck
29:03He's recovered
29:06My face went hot
29:08You knew
29:10You knew he wasn't
29:12You lied to me
29:14Athena just smiled
29:16You did it on purpose
29:19I didn't lie
29:21The healers said it was unlikely
29:23I just didn't correct them
29:24Why?
29:25Because
29:26I wanted to see him suffer
29:30You should have seen his face when he heard he couldn't
29:33Well
29:35It was worth it
29:37I stared at her
29:39But if she hadn't lied
29:41I never would have stayed
29:43I would have run from Eris
29:45On our wedding night
29:46And never learned that beneath all the violence
29:48There was a man who'd been alone for 3,000 years
29:51A man who stood outside my door at midnight
29:54With his hands shaking over my face
29:57Afraid to touch me
29:58A man who walked an hour
30:00To pick flowers
30:01With his wounded leg
30:03And left them on my work table
30:05Without a word
30:08Athena came
30:10Yes
30:12What did she say?
30:15That she lied to you
30:20She said you were fine all along
30:24His ears went pink
30:27Do you still want to leave?
30:29And for a moment
30:29He looked almost afraid
30:32I cupped his face in my hands
30:34Stood on my toes
30:35And kissed him
30:36I'm not going anywhere
30:37He pressed his forehead to mine
30:39And every spring
30:41We watched the flowers bloom together
31:12All right
31:13Iris stepped in front of me
31:15Iris stepped in front of me
31:15She's fit enough for me
31:17Hera looked at him for a long time
31:20You've changed
31:22Yes
31:23He glanced back at me
31:24And his eyes were soft
31:26Because of her
31:28After she left
31:29I took his hand
31:32Do you regret it?
31:34Marrying a nobody nymph?
31:35A bastard
31:36He laughed
31:37And pulled me into his chest
31:39You're the best decision
31:40I ever made
31:41I pressed my face
31:43Against his heart
31:44It beat steady and strong
31:45Like war drums
31:47Like spring thunder
31:48Like the tide coming in
31:50And for the first time
31:52In my life
31:53I wasn't ashamed
31:54Of my body anymore
31:55Because this body
31:57This cursed
31:58Impossible
31:59Too much body
32:01It was the reason
32:02He saw me
32:03Every spring
32:04The flowers bloom
32:05Every night
32:07The moon rises over Olympus
32:09And we will be here
32:11Together
32:12To see it all
32:14From now on
32:15Year after year
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