Of Gods and Monsters by Susan Harris

Author:Susan Harris [Harris, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CTP Publishing

Sitting on top of her skull throne, Hel, known on earth as Helen, huffed out a breath with boredom as she contemplated a trip to Midgard to see how the war against Odin was proceeding. She missed her friend Melanie, who, by the way, had not even bothered to send her flowers or a gift for saving her lover.

Then the Thor girl had tried to rough her up, and Hel had not liked that, but the girl smelled of her brother, and she would rather be upset than have Fenrir hunt her down because she had made the puny goddess bleed.

She glanced at Baldur, who stared out into the underworld beside her, his expression blank and joyless as it had been when she dragged him down here. Hel—the place, not the person—had sucked the joy and light from the god.

Awareness washed over her as she darted upright, righting her rainbow-colored tutu and striding to the mouth of her cold palace and glancing down at the army of the dead, who jostled each other as they moved.

Hel blinked as one of her dead vanished, then another, then a handful all vanished before her eyes. “What the …”

Her words were cut off as her hound, Garmr, howled, a low, mournful sound that sent a shiver along her spine.

“Bad dog, shush!” she chided him, but Garmr continued to howl at the entrance to the underworld as the souls she had kept for eternity began to vanish at an alarming rate.

Glancing over her shoulder just in time to see Baldur disappear, Hel glanced back at her hound and sighed. “Well, that’s not good.”

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