“Where are your parents?” “We don’t have parents,” Apollo lied and also didn’t lie. His shoulders squared around the sudden truth and falseness of this statement. It seemed to fit him evenly, the duality of what he’d suddenly shifted into. Henri paused, if only to close the journal tenderly, then grinned, though not at the twins. He was looking at the tall one, the one with hair like the moon. “That’s the problem with Gods, isn’t it? Spend their lives warring with one another, and the children are left to done the discarded pieces of trauma.”
c.rowan, deathless






