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“Have you spoken to the Moirai, or an oracle, in regard to this?” said a male Senator with slicked back dark hair and a strong familial resemblance to the woman from Goryeo.
“We have not,” Persephone stated. “I am unsure of where we stand as far as allies.”
“Yet you brought it before our senate?” he asked. “How can you be sure you can trust us?” “She damn well better be able to,” Hera seethed.
“Fates, you are a piece of work, Kiran. Maybe take that nonsense back to your hovel,” a woman chastised. “What is the next step?” she asked as she shot a salacious wink of her honey- colored eyes at Devon.
Persephone let out a little laugh at his discomfort from being the center of the beautiful female’s attention.
“Gods of the Underworld, that blush is adorable!” The woman laughed a little, her curls shaking.
Persephone cleared her throat to answer, earning a playful wink from the flirty woman
“The next step is finding the person who holds my sister Hestia’s power. We have it on good authority that they are in Halcyon.” Whispers erupted in the room, before Hera smacked her hand down demanding quiet.
“Whose?” Kiran asked.
“Mine.”
Kiran met Persephone’s eyes before sitting back, as if withdrawing the question. Though Devon didn’t miss the longing looks Kiran sent his wife’s way, nor the angry looks towards Devon. It was suddenly apparent there was some unrequited lust on Kiran’s end. Devon smirked at Persephone this time.
“We need to find them then. Can you start the search for us, Finley?” Hera asked the woman with similar features to Kiran.
“I can,” Finley responded, quiet but powerful.
“Then we will meet again when we find the person who holds the last of our lost sister’s power and reevaluate our situation.” Hera formally closed the session and everyone filed out of the chambers.
Devon noted all five of them for future reference as they passed by him: the male Senator with the golden hair, the male and female siblings with Goryeon ancestry; Kiran and Finley, the flirty female senator with honey-colored eyes, and the one who stayed silent, her stature that of a soldier.
These were their allies, and he knew they would be part of what stood between Halcyon and the Titans.
They would rewrite what the humans knew of the Gods and Goddesses.
They would create their own army.
They would create the Olympians.
Epilogue
It took several days for West to gather the courage to walk into his father’s office.
His mind kept him up at night with the how and the why of what had happened along the docks.
After far too many sleepless nights, he was finally ready to confront father, who he knew instinctually was at the center of this.
Not bothering to stop at his father’s receptionist’s desk, worried he might lose his nerve, he could hear the woman begging him to wait as he barged through the doors to his father’s office.
West didn’t want to wait until his father could think of some excuse.
Why this was this and that was that, creating some false narrative of what happened as a fluke. He wanted direct answers, and he would only get those if he caught his old man off guard.
Standing before his father now, he was shocked to not see the man who was always well put together with a salesman smile on his face. Instead, his father was as he had never seen him.
His head in his hands, looking defeated.
The man who seemed totally at ease holding the weight of the world on his shoulders looked like he was falling apart.
“Dad…” he mumbled as he felt his anger dissipate, making way for confusion and concern.
