In the pouring rain, a lithe, pale figure with long, inky hair sauntered slowly down the podium toward Zeus. He wore a ruby crown with tall, jagged silver spires, which was the famed symbol of the Chthonic House leaders. He was an entire head taller than Zeus. The man’s countenance was abrasive. Menacing. If he was a musical melody, he’d be the Locrian mode—the darkest musical scale played on a piano.
