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He grew up in the lower city. He has been working for Hades long enough that the work and the person he became are difficult to separate, which is fine. He respects Hades. He respects what the lower city is and what it costs to ...
She was supposed to be the prize. She entered the tournament instead. She won. Helen Kasios — sister to Zeus, daughter of the man who shaped Olympus's worst traditions, former gossip site fixture, current Ares — is not wh ...
He grew up in a family that left the city's political circles when he was in the third grade. He wanted to be an accountant at age eight. He became Athena's special forces instead, because Achilles went there first and he ...
He was born in the lower city. This is not a small thing. Most of the lower city's permanent residents came across the bridge. A handful were born here. He is one of the handful, which means the river is his in a way it is ...
He was the most beautiful thing in every room he entered. He knew this. He used it. He told himself it was charm and not exploitation, which is the kind of story you tell yourself when you've never had to pay the cost of ...
He grew up in an orphanage that bears Hera's name and has never once seen a Hera set foot in it. He worked his way through Ares's grunt ranks, was pulled out by Athena, became her second. He planned to win the tournament ...