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“You would start a war.”
“I hope so. For I will see you torn down, Father, before I will be jailed for your convenience any longer.”

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They howled, pointing at my reddened cheeks. The sound drew my mother. She loved my siblings’ japes. My mother’s laughter, silver as a fountain down its rocks. “Stupid Circe.”

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His face was like a quiet pool that would hold everything safe in its depth.

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Once again, I wished that someone else were there on the island. Not to commiserate now, but to cherish him with me. I failed him, yet he is a sweet wonder of this world.

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His face was like a quiet pool that would hold everything safe in its depth.

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“But a monster, she always has a place. She may have all the glory her teeth can snatch. She will not be loved for it, but she will not be constrained either… I think it may be said that you improved her.”

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I was breaking into pieces. I knew what I would see when I looked at him, his eager, pleading hope. He wanted to go. He had always wanted to go, from the moment he was born into my arms.

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All I knew was that I hated her. For I was like any dull ass who has ever loved someone who loved another. I thought: if only she were gone, it would change everything.

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I felt a sickening unease that it went back further still, back to the first breath I ever drew.

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I found a new thought in myself… The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.

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Ariadne’s light feet crossed the circle. I wanted to seize her by the shoulders. Whatever you do, I wanted to say, do not be too happy. It will bring down fire on your head.
I said nothing, and let her dance.

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“You know nothing of Perses. Do you know how I had to keep him happy? The things I had to do?”

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Everything was united by the steady rise and fall of nature’s breath. Everything except for me.

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The nymphs wafted around me. Their smothered laughter drifted down the halls. At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers, who would have bragged and fought and hunted down my wolves. But of course that was never a real danger. Sons were not punished.

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“You dare threaten me?”
These gods, I thought, they always say the same thing.

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“You would start a war.”
“I hope so. For I will see you torn down, Father, before I will be jailed for your convenience any longer.”

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“Is it true? That you were not caught, but confessed to Zeus freely what you did?”
“It is.”
“Why?”
His eyes were steady on mine. “Perhaps you will tell me. Why would a god do such a thing?”

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“How do you bear it?” he said.
Prometheus’s words, deep-running as roots, had waited in me all this time.
“We bear it as best we can,” I said.

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I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.

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I had let Penelope stay on the island so she would not lose her son. I would lose mine instead.