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Forbidden Love with Ares - Full Ep
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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 lean and 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
06:18On 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
06:30Airs wants 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 Ares 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
07:23Ares 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
07:34Ares' hands moved up my legs
07:37And everywhere he touched
07:39My skin caught fire
07:42His 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 closed around 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
12:00A servant came to take me to the baths
12:03When I looked back at the doorway
12:05Face was blank
12:07Expressionless
12:08Like a statue that had been shattered
12:10And glued back together
12:12That night
12:13I lay on the couch
12:15Listening to his breathing
12:16And couldn't sleep
12:17Moonlight crept through the windows
12:19And sprayed across his face
12:21Asleep
12:22He didn't look like the god of war
12:24He just looked like a wounded boy
12:26No older than the men
12:27I'd glimpsed at the edges of the grove
12:29I turned to face the wall
12:30Pressing my face into the pillow
12:33Then my head
12:34A thought kept circling back
12:35When he had held my wrist that first night
12:37His thumb had traced the lines of my palm
12:39Light
12:40Almost not there
12:41But it had been there
12:42I didn't know when I fell asleep
12:44Half dreaming
12:45Something warm touched the back of my neck
12:47I rolled over and opened my eyes into amber
12:50Eris stood beside the couch
12:53His hair fell forward
12:55Brushing my cheek
12:56Moonlight painted his silhouette
12:58The broad shoulders
12:59The straight nose
13:00The long line of his jaw
13:02I tried to speak
13:03But no sound came
13:05He didn't say anything either
13:06He just looked at me
13:07His hand rose
13:08Hovering over my face
13:10His fingers trembling
13:11He didn't touch me
13:12Sleep
13:13I watched him go
13:14My heart slamming against my ribs
13:16That night
13:17I dreamed I stood on a battlefield
13:19That night
13:20I dreamed I stood on a battlefield
13:22The sky rad as blood
13:24The ground cracking beneath my feet
13:26Eris came riding out of the clouds
13:28In a golden chariot
13:29He held out his hand
13:30I didn't run
13:31He pulled me up
13:32Onto the chariot
13:33Wrapped his arms around me
13:34Pulled me back against his chest
13:36His heartbeat
13:37Was a drum against my spine
13:39Do you know why
13:40I chose you?
13:43Because you pushed me away
13:46Everyone wants something from me
13:47Power, protection, my name
13:49Everyone wants to use me
13:51But you
13:52You were the one who didn't want me
13:55So I want you
13:57I woke gasping
13:58Drenched in sweat
13:59Outside
14:00The sun was up
14:02Eris' bed was empty
14:03The servant who bought my water
14:05Told me the war god
14:06Had already gone to the training grounds
14:08Even wounded
14:09He never missed a day
14:10In the bronze mirror
14:11I studied my reflection
14:13The ring still worked
14:14I thought
14:15But the edges of my shape
14:16Were starting to come through again
14:18My breasts pushed against the wall
14:19My waist curved in
14:21I wrapped the bondings tighter
14:23One turn
14:24Two
14:24Three
14:25Until I could barely breathe
14:27Eris came back at midday
14:29I was in the kitchen
14:30Standing over a bronze cauldron
14:32Stirring the herbal broth
14:33I'd learned to make
14:35From my mother's notes
14:37What's that?
14:38Medicine
14:40For your leg
14:41He came up behind me
14:42Close enough that I could feel
14:43The heat coming off him
14:44You know how to do this?
14:46I learnt
14:47My mother knew healing
14:48He didn't ask anything else
14:50He picked up the cup
14:52And drank
14:54How is it?
14:56Terrible
14:57I watched him drink
14:58And for a moment
14:59I thought maybe the god of war
15:01Wasn't as frightening as they said
15:03I was wrong about that
15:04That evening
15:05I was in my room
15:06Unpacking the clothes
15:07Athena had sent
15:08When I heard footsteps in the hall
15:10Heavy and uneven
15:11Like an animal dragging
15:13A wounded leg
15:14I opened the door
15:15Eris was braced against the wall
15:17His face slick with sweat
15:18His right leg trembled
15:20Blood was seeping through his bandages
15:21Running down his calf
15:23Pooling on the marble floor
15:24What happened?
15:27Nothing
15:27Old wound
15:29Don't bother
15:29You're bleeding!
15:32So?
15:33Rest
15:34The healer said
15:36Rest?
15:37I'm the god of war
15:38Not a cripple
15:40He said cripple
15:41Like it was a knife
15:42Twisting in his gut
15:43I didn't argue
15:43I half carried him back to his room
15:45His weight almost too much
15:47And laid him on the bed
15:48I found the healer's salve
15:49And unwrapped the blood-soaked bandages
15:51The wound
15:52Was worse than I'd imagined
15:53A long
15:54Twisted scar
15:56Ran down the inside of his thigh
15:57Where the Trojan spear
15:58Had gone through
15:59My fingers brushed the scar
16:01Arrows went rigid
16:06Does it hurt?
16:07He didn't answer
16:08He was staring at me
16:10His amber eyes wild
16:11Keep looking at me like that
16:12And I can't promise what I'll do
16:14Thought my face went hot
16:16My hands stopped moving
16:18I'm just
16:19I'm putting on the salve
16:21I know
16:22Just finish and get out
16:24I worked fast
16:25When I was done
16:26I practically ran out of the room
16:28Behind the closed door
16:31I heard a dull thud
16:33His fist hitting the wall
16:35I leaned against the wood
16:36Heart pounding
16:37And listened to him breathing on the other side
16:39Days passed
16:41I made the medicine every morning
16:43Changed his bandages twice a day
16:46Read him the dispatches from the war councils
16:49Some days he was angry
16:51Some days he was silent
16:53When he was angry
16:54He threw things
16:56Once he threw a cup
16:58So hard
16:59It shattered against the wall
17:00And a shard cut my cheek
17:02Since I
17:03Leave
17:05I left
17:08When he was silent
17:09He sat by the window for hours
17:12Watching the clouds
17:13Sometimes he watched me
17:15His gaze was heavy
17:16But not threatening
17:18It was like he was trying to memorize the shape of my face
17:21The line of my brow
17:22The curve of my mouth
17:24Like he was afraid he'd wake up one morning and forget
17:27We never touched
17:29No
17:30He made sure not to touch
17:33Sometimes
17:33When I leaned down to hand him his cup
17:36I could feel his eyes on my chest
17:39My hands would shake
17:41And a drop of the dark liquid
17:43Would fall on his skin
17:45He'd look at it
17:46For a long moment
17:47Then wipe it with his thumb
17:49And bring it to his lips
17:52Sweet
17:53He'd say
17:55Sometimes when I passed him in the hallway
17:57His fingers would lift
17:58Just barely
17:59Like he was thinking about reaching for me
18:02But he never did
18:04One day
18:05Hera came
18:08The queen of the gods
18:09Swept into the temple
18:11With her whole rat knew
18:13Wearing purple robes
18:14And a golden crown
18:15Her presence
18:17Like a weight in the air
18:18I hear you married a nymph
18:21She said
18:22Looking me up and down
18:23This smile was sharp
18:25I shook my head
18:26She turned back to Ares
18:27A nobody nymph
18:28A bastard
18:30Not a fitting wife for a god of Olympias
18:33Ares' voice went flat
18:34I marry who I want
18:35Ares' face darkened
18:37But she didn't push
18:39She swept out
18:40Pausing at the door
18:41To look back at me
18:42You know why your mother's body
18:44Was like yours?
18:45She said
18:46Because she was a slut too
18:48She used that body
18:49To seduce someone
18:50She shouldn't have
18:51You're just what she left behind
18:53She left
18:54I stood in the empty hall
18:56Cold to the bone
18:57Ares pushed himself up
18:59Come here
19:00Come here
19:01I didn't move
19:02His voice softened
19:03Thena
19:05Come here
19:06I walked to him
19:07He took my hand
19:09His thumb moving over my palm
19:11Don't listen to her
19:12He said
19:13The way you're made
19:14It's not your fault
19:15My eyes burned
19:16Annoyance edged his voice
19:18Why are you crying?
19:19But he didn't let go of my hand
19:21I said
19:21I don't know
19:24No one's ever
19:25No one's ever told me that before
19:28Ares was quiet for a long time
19:30Then he pulled me against him
19:32One arm went around my shoulders
19:34And the other hand patted my back
19:36Clumsy and awkward
19:38Like a man who'd never comforted anyone
19:40In three thousand years
19:42I won't hurt you
19:43He sat into my hair
19:45I swear it
19:46I bared my face in his shoulder
19:47After that
19:49Things shifted
19:50He stopped avoiding me
19:52I stopped running from him
19:53In the evenings
19:55We sat on the temple steps together
19:57And watched the sunset
19:58He sat on the left
19:59I sat on the right
20:01In arm's length between us
20:02He told me about the battles he'd fought
20:05I told him about the grove
20:07About Teo's cruelty
20:08About singing the hymns off-key
20:10And getting punished for it
20:11He scowled like a child
20:13Do you know why I hate Athena?
20:15Why?
20:16Because she's always right
20:17Every time
20:19Annoying
20:20No matter what the subject
20:21She always has to be right
20:22He watched me
20:24His eyes softened in the fading light
20:26You have a beautiful laugh
20:28I stopped laughing
20:29He looked away
20:30But not before I saw his ears go pink
20:33That night
20:34I dreamed of him again
20:35His mouth on my neck
20:37His hands on my skin
20:39I woke up shaking
20:41My thighs slick with heat
20:43And bit my lips so hard
20:44I tasted copper
20:46I'll set my door
20:47Footsteps
20:48I looked up
20:50And saw the shadow of his back
20:52Retreating down the hall
20:53The next morning
20:54When I went to the kitchen
20:56To make his medicine
20:57I found flowers on the work table
20:59White anemones
21:01Their petals wet with dew
21:02Tied together with a piece of rough twine
21:05No note
21:06That I recognized the red clay
21:08Still clinging to the stems
21:10It came from the stream
21:11Behind the mountain
21:12With his leg
21:14It would have taken him an hour
21:16To walk there
21:16An hour to pick the flowers
21:18An hour to walk back
21:20I put them in a clay pot
21:22On the windowsill
21:24When I went back to stirring the cauldron
21:26I couldn't stop smiling
21:29Spring was just beginning
21:30And something between us had changed
21:32Something that started
21:34The day he first saw me in the olive grove
21:36Something that started
21:38When he tore away the bindings on my chest
21:40Something that started in the dark
21:42When he stood over me
21:44With his hand hovering by my face
21:46And didn't touch me
21:47Something that
21:48I finally understood
21:50Had already changed everything
21:53Aris' leg got better
21:55But he still didn't touch me
21:57I told myself
21:59It didn't
22:00What did it matter
22:01If he can
22:02That's what I told myself
22:04Until the evening
22:05By this stream
22:06I was washing clothes
22:07Kneeling on a flat rock
22:09I was bent forward
22:10And the color of my dress
22:11Had slipped open
22:12Without me noticing
22:14Thinner
22:14Aris' voice
22:16Came from behind me
22:17Rough as stone
22:18Scraping stone
22:19I turned
22:20He was standing under a plain tree
22:21At the water's edge
22:23His amber eyes
22:24Were fixed on my chest
22:25Where the wet wool
22:26Clung to the shape
22:27Of my breasts
22:28I scrambled up
22:29He walked toward me
22:30Every step was heavy
22:32Deliberate
22:32I stepped back
22:33Slipped on the moss-licked stone
22:35And fell toward the water
22:36His arms shot out
22:38And caught me
22:38I slammed into his chest
22:40My body flushed against his
22:41We both went still
22:43His heart was hammering
22:44His breath came fast
22:45His chest heaving
22:47Ares
22:48He didn't let go
22:49His arms locked around my waist
22:52Don't move
22:53He buried his face
22:55In my neck
22:56His nose pressing against my collarbone
22:58He inhaled
22:58The heat of his breath
23:00Spread across my skin
23:01And I shivered
23:02Do you know how long
23:03I've wanted this
23:04I couldn't think
23:06Since the first time
23:08I saw you
23:08Since you pushed me away
23:10His fingers dug into my waist
23:12Almost too hard
23:14Three thousand years
23:15No one's ever dared
23:16To push me
23:17You were the first
23:18He pulled back
23:20Just enough
23:21To look at me
23:22And this
23:24His gaze
23:25Fell to my chest again
23:26That I tried to cover myself
23:28Daddy caught my wrist
23:29And pressed it against
23:30The tree trunk
23:31Behind me
23:32Don't
23:32Let me see
23:34His fingers found the ties
23:35At my collar
23:36They were shaking
23:37Can I
23:38I didn't answer
23:40But I didn't push him away either
23:42He pulled
23:43The wet wool
23:44Flipped off my shoulders
23:45His breath stopped
23:46His eyes went dark with fire
23:49Senna
23:49His fingers traced the line
23:51Of my collarbone
23:52Moving down
23:54Ares
23:54He bent
23:56And pressed his lips
23:57To the curve
23:58Where my neck
23:59Met my shoulder
23:59Light
24:00Barely a kiss
24:01But my whole body
24:02Arched into it
24:03He looked up at me
24:04For once
24:05There was nothing
24:06Of the war god
24:07In his face
24:08Just tenderness
24:09Raw and open
24:10You're shaking
24:13So are you
24:14He smiled
24:16I'd never seen him
24:17Smile like that
24:19I'm scared
24:20You?
24:22That I'll hurt you
24:23That you'll cry
24:24That you'll push me
24:26Away again
24:27I laughed
24:27He touched his forehead
24:29To mine
24:29Can I kiss you?
24:31I answered
24:32By pressing my mouth
24:33To his
24:34For a second
24:34He was frozen
24:35Then he came alive
24:37Pushing me back
24:37Against the tree
24:38Casing me like
24:39He'd been starving
24:40For it
24:40His tongue
24:41Swapped into my mouth
24:42Claiming everything
24:43I clung to his hair
24:44Breathless
24:45He lifted me
24:46Wrapping my legs
24:47Around his waist
24:48And I felt it
24:49The part of him
24:51The healers said
24:52Would never work again
24:53I went still
24:54He went still
24:55We broke apart
24:56Breathing hard
24:57Staring at each other
25:00The healers said
25:02His face
25:03Cycled through
25:04Confusion
25:05Disbelief
25:06In a fierce
25:07Almost boyish
25:08Delight
25:09I guess they were wrong
25:10His hands
25:12Slid down to my hip
25:13Pressing me closer
25:15Eris
25:17What?
25:18You don't want to?
25:19He laughed
25:20And lifted me higher
25:21Carrying me back
25:22Toward the temple
25:23Thought my spine
25:25Hit the bronze doors
25:26With a boom
25:26That echoed
25:27Across the valley
25:28The door
25:29Leave it
25:30He pushed me
25:32Against it
25:32And kissed me again
25:33Harder this time
25:34His hands
25:35Slid up my sides
25:36And found my chest
25:37Through the thin wet cloth
25:39And my thoughts scattered
25:41I've wanted you
25:42Since the moment
25:43I saw you
25:44His thumb
25:44Brushed across
25:45The peak of my breast
25:46And the sound
25:47Escaped my throat
25:48That I'd never
25:49Heard myself make before
25:51More beautiful
25:52Than I imagined
25:55Dead
25:56He carried me
25:57To his bed
25:58Laid me down
25:59And stood over me
26:01In the moonlight
26:02In Olympus
26:03Gods aren't supposed
26:04Close to love
26:06Why?
26:08Because love is a weakness
26:10And the god of war
26:11Can't be weak
26:12He lowered his head
26:14And pressed a kiss
26:15To my chest
26:17But you
26:21You're the one weakness
26:22I don't want to give up
26:23That night
26:24That night
26:24Every flower on Olympus
26:26Bloomed out of season
26:27Anemones
26:28Crocuses
26:29Hyacinth
26:30Laurel
26:31Doesn't hung thick
26:32In the air
26:33His mouth
26:34Moved down my body
26:36His fingers
26:37Laced with mine
26:38Sweat
26:39Beated on his forehead
26:40Does it hurt?
26:42A little
26:43My nails
26:44Bit into his back
26:46He stopped
26:47Kissed the tears
26:49That had started
26:50At the corners
26:50Of my eyes
26:52Make him stop
26:53Don't
26:55I pulled him back
26:56Don't stop
26:56He looked at me
26:58With something like
26:59Reverence in his eyes
27:00All right
27:01The moon slipped
27:02Behind a cloud
27:03That night
27:04All of Olympus
27:06Heard the war god roar
27:07Not with battle rage
27:09But something else
27:10Something that sounded
27:12Like a lion tamed
27:13Purring at his mate's ear
27:16In the morning
27:17Aeris was already awake
27:19He lay popped
27:20Against the headboard
27:21His fingers
27:22Tangled in my hair
27:24Morning
27:24He said
27:25Smiling
27:26Morning
27:27I buried my face
27:28In the blanket
27:29He pulled it back
27:30What are you hiding for?
27:32You know why
27:34He laughed
27:34And hauled me up
27:35Against his chest
27:37Watch the sun rise
27:38With me
27:39Every day
27:42Why?
27:43Because I want to see
27:44The beginning of every day
27:45With you
27:46From now on
27:49Everyone
27:50Outside
27:51The first light
27:52Broke over Olympus
27:55All right
27:56Deal
27:58I pressed my face
28:00To his chest
28:00Listening to his heart
28:03Deal
28:04Where it spread
28:05Through Olympus
28:06Aeris wasn't broken
28:07The healers
28:08Were idiots
28:09And the god of war
28:11Was fiercer
28:11In bed
28:12Than on the battlefield
28:13I was limping
28:15Out of the bedroom
28:16When I ran into Athena
28:18Leaning against a pillar
28:20In the hallway
28:20Looking amused
28:23I see
28:24Glancing at the marks
28:26On my neck
28:27He's recovered
28:30My face went hot
28:32You knew
28:34You knew he wasn't
28:36You lied to me
28:38Athena just smiled
28:41You did it on purpose
28:43I didn't lie
28:45The healers said
28:46It was unlikely
28:47I just didn't
28:47Correct them
28:48Why?
28:50Because
28:50I wanted to see him
28:52Suffer
28:54You should have seen
28:55His face
28:56When he heard
28:56He couldn't
28:57Well
28:59It was worth it
29:01I stared at her
29:03But if she hadn't lied
29:05I never would have stayed
29:07I would have run from Aeris
29:09On our wedding night
29:10I never learned
29:11That beneath all the violence
29:12There was a man
29:13Who'd been alone
29:14For three thousand years
29:15A man who stood
29:16Outside my door
29:17At meet night
29:18With his hands shaking
29:20Over my face
29:21Afraid to touch me
29:22A man who walked
29:24An hour
29:24To pick flowers
29:25With his wounded leg
29:27And left them
29:28On my work table
29:29Without a word
29:32Athena came
29:34Yes
29:36What did she say?
29:39That she lied to you
29:44She said you were fine
29:46All along
29:48His ears went pink
29:51Do you still want to leave?
29:53And for a moment
29:53He looked almost afraid
29:55I cupped his face
29:57In my hands
29:58Stood on my toes
29:59And kissed him
30:00I'm not going anywhere
30:01He pressed his forehead
30:03To mine
30:03And every spring
30:05We watched the flowers
30:07Bloom together
30:07All right
30:09Outside
30:10The pomegranate flowers
30:11Were opening
30:12Red as flame
30:14The wind came up
30:15From the valley
30:16Hearing the smell
30:18Of anemones
30:18And laurel
30:19Drifting through
30:21The columns
30:21And stirring
30:22Our hair
30:24Hera came
30:25One more time
30:27She looked me over
30:28And said
30:29I was too much
30:30Too loud
30:31Too shapely
30:33Not fit
30:34To be the wife
30:35Of an Olympian
30:37Iris stepped
30:38In front of me
30:39She's fit enough
30:40For me
30:41Hera looked at him
30:43For a long time
30:44You've changed
30:46Yes
30:47He glanced
30:47Back at me
30:48And his eyes
30:49Were soft
30:50Because of her
30:52After she left
30:53I took his hand
30:55Do you regret it?
30:57Marrying a nobody
30:59Nymph?
30:59A bastard
31:00He laughed
31:01And pulled me
31:02Into his chest
31:03You're the best
31:04You're the best decision
31:04I ever made
31:05I pressed my face
31:07Against his heart
31:08It beat steady
31:09And strong
31:09Like war drums
31:11Like spring thunder
31:12Like the tide
31:13Coming in
31:14And for the first time
31:16In my life
31:17I have too much body
31:19It was the reason
31:20He saw me
31:21Every spring
31:22The flowers bloom
31:24Every night
31:25The moon rises
31:26Over Olympus
31:27And we will be here
31:29Together
31:30To see it all
31:32From now on
31:33Year after year
31:35And we will be here
31:35And we will be here
31:36To see it all
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