The Questers: Endless Nights

Post Michael and Kyra's deaths. -Leafwhisker Stipulevibrissa 14:36, November 12, 2012 (UTC)

* * * They saw them in the eyes of their children. Jean resembled her father in ways that it was almost painful to look at her. Arthur looked like Kyra but had the personality of his father. At least, for now. Natalie hoped Arthur wouldn't learn too much from Zack. Zia was like a mix of both her parents, but didn't quite have the personality of either. Natalie guessed the child had inhertited Athena's studious behavior. They were children, yet they were the mirror images of those whom they had lost. That fact made them want to hate them, but they were only children and had not done any real harm.

It had been a little over a year since Michael had died but they all felt the wounds like his death had been yesterday. Each had their own ritual of dealing with the loss.

Zack would kill the Nemean Lion each time it reformed. Each time he made sure its death was worst than the last.

Ava would sit alone in her room the day he died and she would meditate. Natalie knew the daughter of Hades was trying to bring his ghost back to the mortal world just once, and even she looked over how much pain that would give them all.

Natalie would find those old comic books her little brother always kept under his bunk at the Athena cabin. She would flip through them, although she had no idea what the comic books were about, and she would smile because her little brother would look through these all the time. It was something to remember him by, and for now it was enough.