Eliza Raine - 02 The Passion of Hades by Eliza Raine & Rose Wilson

Author:Eliza Raine & Rose Wilson [Raine, Eliza & Wilson, Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

Hecate's rooms were significantly nicer than mine, though not my taste. She had to flash me there, because I wasn't allowed anywhere other than the conservatory and the training room, and we arrived in a large sitting room. Rocky walls and the high ceiling glowing with dusky daylight provided illumination, but the room had a dark, elegant feel to it. The floor was covered in deep plush carpet in a dark grey and two black gothic style couches with ornate detailing over the curved wooden frames dominated the room. The wall on my right was made up of a giant black bookcase, full to the brim with leather-bound volumes. The opposite wall had a long counter running along it, made of a dark wood and similarly gothic in style, and abstract geometric art in hundreds of shades of blue hung on the wall above it. The counter was covered in exotic looking objects, and I was half way to picking up a glowing skull before Hecate stopped me.

"Do not touch that," she said sharply, and I froze.

"OK. Why not?"

"You'll wake up Kako. And I am not dealing with his shit tonight."

"Kako?"

"The evil spirit that lives in that skull."

"Riiiight," I said, staring at the skull. 'Of course there's an evil spirit living in your sitting room."

"Well, I am the goddess of ghosts," she shrugged, and bent to open one of the many cupboards under the counter.

"Is there anything else I shouldn't touch?" I asked, looking along the row of shiny, glowing items. There was a vial that had something neon orange in it, a curved blade with tiny swirls etched all over it, a large pearl that shimmered in the low light coming from the wall behind it, and many other things besides. I wanted to touch it all.

"Everything. Leave it all alone."

I pulled a face but backed away from the counter. The back wall of the room was missing, a large archway in its place, and I could see a massive four poster bed draped with black sheer material in the room beyond. A memory of the bed I'd seen Hades and I in popped into my head and I turned away quickly, sitting down on one of the couches.

"So, where's your flame dish?" I asked.

"Oh, yeah," she said, straightening and setting two glasses on the counter. Her eyes turned white as she glowed blue, then a massive iron dish on a short stand appeared in front of the couch. A gentle orange flame flickered to life in the center. I peered at it.

"So these are like TVs? Do they always have something showing?"

"You can use them to talk to each other, like your video phones, or the gods can broadcast on them. That's it."

"And people in Olympus have been watching me in the Trials so far in these?"

"Yup."

"Mental," I breathed.

"So are your video phones. Athena is so proud of your current civilization. You've got pretty far pretty quickly."

"Huh," I said. I couldn't think about my world as an experiment of a bored god.

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