“What the fuck, man!” I shoved him backward, planting my bloody palm on his chest and pushing as hard as I could.
He didn’t move. He just stood there blinking at me with annoyance.
Finally, he reached out and grabbed my injured palm, then he laid the chunk of my beautiful ten-thousand-Instagram-likes hair on the cut.
“Gross, what the hell?” I tried to yank my palm back.
The second my hair hit the blood of my skin, a blue glow emanated from my palm and the cut started to close. An itchy tingle worked its way up my arm before settling into warmth in my chest. Then Cronus brought his mouth to my hand and blew warm air across my skin. I peered down. The hair was gone and my palm was healed.
My mouth went slack.#Rapunzel #PrincessRightHere
“How?” I muttered.
Cronus turned to open the door, which had clicked ajar two inches while I stared at my palm in complete and utter shock.
“I’m hallucinating,” I decided.
He shook his head at me. “Not this again.” He opened the door an inch and peeked inside. “You’re a descendant of the moon goddess. I already told you your hair has some mild powers.”
My eyes bugged. “Mild powers.You liar!You said it would glow and that at most I was ‘genetically blessed.’”
The god looked back at me, “Youaregenetically blessed, and your hair holds a bit of magic.”
“A bit!”
Oh my God. Could I cure cancer? Heal the sick? This shit was insane.
Cronus fully turned and placed a hand on either side of my shoulders. “Look, we don’t have time for your nervous breakdown right now. Your hair can heal you and you alone. It’s not that big of a deal. Witches could also use it in spells. It may have some other properties, but I haven’t heard of them, so they can’t be that powerful.”
Holy shit. This was nuts.
#Breathe.
Cronus placed me in front of him, facing the crack in the open door. “I’m going to need you to go first.”
I looked back at him incredulously. “How chivalrous of you.”
“I will protect you from danger. We’re on borrowed time, might I add.”
Ugh.
With a growl, I wrenched the door open fully and stepped one foot into the dark cave.
“Hello!” I shouted.
Cronus’ hand clamped down on my shoulder. “Shhh, do you want to wake every creature guarding this place?”
Creature.He said creature! #FuckThisImOut
I went to back up, slamming my body against his chest, but he pushed me forward as we walked as one.
With a whoosh, orange fiery lights erupted along the cave walls, illuminating a massive space.
“Holy shit!” I breathed.
Treasure upon treasure was stacked high across the space. A hundred-foot-wide circle was filled to the brim with crystals, knives, goblets, jewels. The real treasure seemed to glow behind a black curtain, pink light filtering out, and I wanted to go inside, but I knew he wouldn’t let me.
Cronus swam into view. “Don’t. Touch. Anything. Your presence got us in here, but I’m sure Zeus has been alerted. Let me get the Elixir and then we are gone. I should be able to get a little further away from you in this particular room due to the magical wards. Everything inside is close and linked, so our bond believes the same.”
