Hadn’t there been enough warnings? It hadn’t only been Serena’s children—even here, even out at the edge of the world, the danger had come to find us, long before this mortal girl showed up. And oh, it hadn’t been some hero come to beg for the answer to a riddle, and it hadn’t been some god’s son completing an impossible task. The most dangerous things—do you know this yet?—the most dangerous things are small and harmless. They look at you out of their bright round eyes, and they rub your ankles with their soft round heads. The most dangerous things worm their way inside of you, until you forget what you’ve always loved, until you betray what you’ve always believed in. The night after Aglaia told me of her prophecy, I stood out with my sisters at the edge of our shore. I watched Serena’s moon gleam; I listened to our waves crash. I tried to understand how I could have let myself become so involved with this girl. I had felt our magic gathering around her, and I had heard her story, the powerful tragedy of her path.
What do You think about The Shadow Behind The Stars?
