‘Your mother,’ she said, prompting him to continue. ‘Tell me about her.’ He did not start immediately, and even when he did, there was a hesitancy to his tone, a stiltedness as the words left his lips. ‘She raised me. There were other people too, I had a family, but my mother she is … special. That sounds silly, I know. Every child must feel the same, but my mother is … she was chosen by Zeus for a reason. No better person could I have wished for in my life.’ A dull throb extended out from her chest, a reminiscence of the way she had felt about her father. ‘She is betrothed to a man,’ Perseus
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