Olympian Beginnings: Chapter 7

 Hestia 

"What? How did she find us?" I asked.

"Well, my mother has been scrying for you ever since you escaped. I suppose leaving Olympus might have given her insight on your location." Hecate said. She blanched. "The others. We need to get out of here."

"Shadow travel." Hades said.

"My mother is the titaness of darkness. She's the one who taught me how to do that. She would sense it."

"Who is your mother, exactly? And who's that other voice?" I asked.

"My mother is Phoebe, the titaness of Darkness and current holder of the Delphic Oracle. And the other voice-" Hecate grimaced - "My older sister, Asteria, titaness of Fallen Stars and Nocturnal Oracles."

Hades frowned. "I didn't know you and Leto had another sister."

Hecate scowled. I got the feeling she wasn't very fond of her eldest sibling. "Well, we do. Asteria the oldest, Leto's the youngest, I'm in the middle. Asteria was paired with my mother to look for you all, and I was paired with Leto, of course."

"Do you think you could convince them to join us?" I asked.

"No chance. They're both way too loyal to Kronos." she frowned. "But they can't know I'm working with you. I'd be banished to Tartarus or worse."

I wondered absently what was worse than being banished to the Pit.

Then I saw gleam in Hecate's luminescent emerald eyes that meant she had an idea. A very clever, very dangerous idea.

"Mother! Over here!"

I stared at Hecate in shock. "What are you doing?"

"Mother! Asteria! I've found them!" Hecate called again, completely ignoring me.

"Traitor!" Hades exclaimed indignantly.

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