Rites of Passion Walker by Sheri Gilmore Alicia Sparks & Saskia Walker

Author:Sheri Gilmore, Alicia Sparks & Saskia Walker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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“Jason is a noble warrior,” Hera announced, looking down from Mount Olympus to Mycenae.

“Noble and foolish,” Zeus grumbled.

Xai Chronicles 1: Jason’s Quest

101

“Perhaps it is time that you let the past lie in the past.”

“The past is forgotten. It is the present I have a problem with. We have been replaced by new gods throughout the star systems. I will not stand for our replacement on Mycenae.”

“People change. Evolution takes place. Their need for us dies and we move on. It has been the way of things since the dawn of time. That is why our palace is in the air. We see all, we know all, yet we control very little.”

“I won’t stand for it, I tell you!”

“You have little choice. Return the Fleece, Zeus. Give her back her life.”

“To what end? She has destroyed all those she comes into contact with.”

“Only because you cursed her.” Hera placed a hand on her husband’s arm. Zeus had always been one to hold a grudge for more millennia than necessary. This time, his grudge was misplaced. This girl had little to do with the past on Earth. Things that took place in the ancient lands had little bearing in reality to what was taking place now. True, the need for them was dying out. The people of the various star systems did not depend upon ancient gods and old religions. Money and power were found in other places now.

“She is not the only one. What of Achilles? Should I also forgive his vanity? Or Pandora? She controls so much with that damned box.”

“And you wish to have all their powers back on Olympus. I understand that. But you must understand that taking their powers from them will not place you in their favor. They will still turn their backs on you in favor of other gods, other eternities.”

“I do not need their favor. I exist with or without them.”

“And you are miserable without them. Medea still goes to your temple, but she does not pray to you. She prays to the ghosts of her ancestors. She asks them for guidance. It is a new dawning, my lord. A new way.”

“We still exist.”

“Of course we do. We will exist for an eternity. I believe we have spent far too long worrying about the goings-on of the humans. We should concern ourselves with our own fates. So many of us have chosen other lives. Hades lives as a man now. Athena lives as a woman. They inhabit planets in this grand universe of ours. They took a new form. You and I could as well. We could leave Olympus behind and start a new day.”

Hera desperately hoped Zeus would see logic in her rationale. Their ways were dead and gone. He was the only holdout on Olympus. As she had said, most of the other gods had abandoned it and them. Many now occupied human lives throughout the universe. Others had moved on to become gods on new planets. He was the only one who clung stubbornly to the past.

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