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she had sacrificed everything she knew for a love as ephemeral and transient as the rainbows that glimmered through the sea spray.
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No longer was my world one of brave heroes; I was learning all too swiftly the women’s pain that throbbed unspoken through the tales of their feats.
I would be Medusa, if it came to it, I resolved. If the gods held me accountable one day for the sins of someone else, if they came for me to punish a man’s actions, I would not hide away like Pasiphae. I would wear that coronet of snakes and the world would shrink from me instead.
I will not say it was an easy decision but it was the only one I could have made. The world was on fire and Theseus was a shaded, green pool.
I danced for the end of everything I knew and the beginning of everything I did not.
Was this my punishment? To live the reality of my dream and find out that its glittering beauty faded to nothing when I stepped close?
