“A voice just started talking to me.”
“A voice?” Re's expression went serious. “What kind of voice?”
“A male one.” I shrugged. “He says that he's the Consciousness of the Void. Have you ever heard of the Void?”
“The Void,” Re whispered. “That sounds familiar.”
Tell him what it is.
“This voice—he calls himself Alaric—he says that the Void is the place where souls go.”
And come from.
“And come from,” I repeated.
The place where human souls were supposed to go before the Gods started misdirecting them.
“It's where human souls were meant to go,” I said. “If not for God intervention.”
Re gaped at me, blinked, and then recovered. “Is he speaking to you now?”
“Yes.”
“And what else does he have to say?”
“That the reason I know so much about Gods, and the reason we have this connection is that a god named...”
Aion,Alaric supplied the name.He's a god of time.
“Aion, a god of time, changed my past and altered our present,” I said. “He says that Aion is Zeus' son, and I did something to Zeus that prompted Aion to persecute me.”
“And in this other life, we were together?” Re asked.
Other time.
“Alaric says it's another time, but yes; we're engaged then too.”
Not going to tell him about your husbands?Alaric's tone was amused.
I don't think that's necessary,I said.
“You're right; this does sound crazy,” Re said. “But it explains all of the other insanity.”
“He offered me proof,” I added.
“What proof?”
“Persephone's murderer,” I whispered. “He says that it's a goddess named Nyx; that she teamed up with Aion. Aion wants to hurt me, but Nyx wants to hurt Hades.”
“Killing Persephone is the surest way to hurt Hades,” Re murmured. “We need to tell him, but not until we confirm it.”
“Alaric said that Hades could confirm it,” I said.
“We can't count on him to.” Re shook his head. “We need to go to Hades with absolute certainty; especially if it's Nyx.”
“Why? Who's Nyx?”
“She's a Greek Primordial; a god who holds a primeval magic. In her case, it's the Night,” Re explained. “She's powerful, but that's not as big of an issue as her status. As a Primordial, she's given a lot of respect. Hades will be loathed to go against her unless he knows for certain that Nyx is the murderer.”
