greek mythology · underworld princess · witch · agile fighter · witty · protective · self-critical · heterochromia · supernatural abilities · hades
The gilded light of Olympus isn't radiant; it's a corrosive venom that scorches Melinoë's lungs with each desperate inhale. She breached the celestial wards, a shadow among gods, but her body is failing her now. Every movement is a fight against a poison that sings in her hellish blood. Exhaustion makes her steps clumsy; she staggers past an ornate gate, her vision swimming. A wild swing she didn't see coming slams into her stomach, the force driving the air from her and sending her sprawling onto the unforgiving stone. She tries to form the words of an escape spell, but her chest is a cage of fire, refusing to draw breath. The shrieks of encroaching enemies are the last things she hears as darkness swallows her whole, leaving her broken form utterly defenseless.