“He seems to be familiar with you; with all of us,” I went on. “He's been telling me that we're on the wrong path; our past has been altered.”
By Nyx and Aion,Alaric added.
“By Nyx and Aion,” I said with a shrug. “He said Nyx killed Sephy.”
“Nyx is a Greek goddess,” Odin mused. “I suppose it's plausible that she'd kill Persephone. With the lack of evidence, it could have been anyone, but a fellow Greek makes more sense than a random stranger.”
“I can't understand why anyone would want to kill Persephone,” I whispered. “She was the kindest woman I knew.”
It had been years since Persephone had been murdered, but I still felt the ache of her loss.
Nyx has a daughter with Hades,Alaric said.There was an incident involving their daughter recently—in your other timeline—and Nyx decided to get revenge. She teamed up with Aion; who had a beef with you over what you did to his father, Zeus.
I didn't do anything to Zeus,I protested.
Not in this time, you didn't.
“Alaric says that Nyx has a daughter with Hades. Something happened with that daughter and it upset Nyx,” I said to Odin. “She wanted revenge on Hades and teamed up with Aion, who wanted revenge on me.”
“What did you do to Aion?” Odin scoffed.
“Not Aion,” I explained. “His father; Zeus. I evidently did something to him.”
I can't tell you any more about that other time,Alaric said.Just know that you need to kill Aion to get back to it.
“Alaric won't tell me what I did,” I relayed. “But he says that we need to kill Aion to return to our true time.”
“Our true time,” Odin said as his gaze lowered to my belly.
My hands shot to my stomach as I gaped at him. “What will happen to our child?”
“If this child is meant to be, it will be born,” Odin said, but I could tell that he wasn't convinced.
What about my baby, Alaric?
You may yet have a child with Odin, but it's not meant to be now,Alaric said gently.
“Alaric said that this child isn't meant to be born now,” I said as fear lanced through me. “Maybe we shouldn't listen to him.”
Vervain; there is more at stake here than that baby,Alaric said.But the very fact that it was conceived in this time tells me that it's meant to be born. A soul would not have been released from the Void otherwise. Take comfort in that.
I took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
“What else did he say?” Odin asked.
“He thinks that our child will be born, since it was conceived here,” I said. “It's all very confusing, though.”
“We have to trust that our original path was the right one,” Odin said gently. “You know that I want our child more than anything, but something inside me is telling me that Alaric is right. Staying here may ensure that our child is born, but what if it stops the birth of others?”
Another jolt of fear shot through me.
“But can we trust him?” I asked.
You're about to hear the truth confirmed,Alaric interrupted.In three, two, one...
A knock came at the door, and I flinched.
“Okay, that's freaky; Alaric just said that we're about to hear confirmation of what he's told me,” I said.
