Hades
"I know what you are doing," was the first words of Montegue's mouth, the moment he sat in my office.
"What is that supposed to mean?" I asked, already more than slightly agitated, putting into the consideration how many things had managed to go wrong within so little time.
Ellen's mental spiral, the Valmonts were now guest's in the Obsidan Tower and the media had caught wind of it. Everyone was on edge and to add to the equation, Ellen's official coronation would have to come soon; I simply could not let them take her away.
I could still taste her fear on my tongue; bitter and striking and so achingly familiar. In so many ways, I had lost, that was a fact. One made even more convoluted by the fact that, during my endeavor to see straight through this woman, I had been given a mirror instead. I saw myself in her; in the fire that blazed in the glaziers of her eyes and in opposite as well; the fear that seemed to eat away at our souls.
