T Channell

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I knew better than to carry hope, but I did so anyway. “Do you truly wish to abandon our home? Our responsibilities?” he asked so quietly I almost hadn’t heard him. I wish it more than anything. Not trusting myself to speak, I nodded. “You know there is nothing I would not do for you, Axios.” He stilled the wandering hand that had been caressing my side, and his face grew serious. “But this… I cannot give you. You ask me to relinquish my birthright as a warrior, to run away like my coward of a father. Spartans do not run, nor will I.” With those words, my hope crumbled to ash, and the beauty ...more
Axios: A Spartan Tale (Axios Series)
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