God of War 2 by Robert E. Vardeman

Author:Robert E. Vardeman [Vardeman, Robert E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-345-52475-1
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2013-02-12T05:00:00+00:00

“WIPE THEM ALL OUT,” Clotho said. “Now that the matter is settled, I need to return to more serious work.”

“Wait!” Lahkesis cried. “Sister, it isn’t that easy.”

“Why should it be easy? But it is simple,” Clotho said. “The gods are misbehaving grievously, and we know why. The Titans are stirring after the Great War and threatening Olympus. Do we want to oversee such a conflict again?”

“The Titanomachy set the world spinning in a different direction,” Lahkesis said. “Was that so bad? Why should we try to keep the peace, to keep everything … staid?”

She saw a different problem, and it was one her sisters avoided even mentioning.

The Titans were growing bolder after so many centuries of imprisonment, servitude, and solitude. It did not surprise her that Gaia was responsible for shepherding Kratos from Hades’ arms all the way to the Island of Creation. What did surprise her was how this could have happened. She and her sisters worked as a team.

She frowned because she did not understand how Kratos had defeated the Warrior of Destiny so easily. The threads intertwining the two destinies should have merged, with only that of the Warrior continuing. She shook her head, the black horns on her helm reflecting rays as dark as her thoughts. That meant Clotho or Atropos had been responsible for the defeat of their most significant confederate.

Even one of them becoming independent ruined the Sisters of Fate’s control over the world. Lahkesis considered the possibility that more action on her own part might be required. She had no love for her sisters, but they were her sisters, chained together by a Fate beyond their control. A niggling thought refused to allow her return to duty, to the routine her sisters appreciated so. The time might have come for her to break free of their hitherto seamless collaboration and strike out on her own.

“You relish routine. I am the one who sees danger because it is always out of the ordinary,” Lahkesis said. Who would react? Could she determine which of her sisters had meddled … in her own meddling?

“You see danger everywhere,” Atropos said glumly. “As you did when you sent the Warrior of Destiny to fight Kratos.”

Through long eons Lahkesis had come to know her sister’s every reaction, the slight twitches, the feigned interest or boredom. The simple statement left her speechless, however. How could Atropos know of the Warrior of Destiny’s failure? Lahkesis had been improvident and had reacted rather than thought through her actions—not as either of her sisters would have. But the impetuous decision had invigorated her and made her dreary existence a little better. Was Atropos only guessing as to her role, though, or had she followed a thread of fate and knew the truth?

Or was her role more active? Were the Sisters of Fate capable of spinning their own destiny, or did some higher power determine their fate? Lahkesis immediately discarded such a fantasy. Over the centuries there had been no such indication—but they had worked together in unison until now.

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