Chapter 6
Acacia knew she should feel a sense of invulnerability, being a wandering soul and thus impervious to any physical harm. Even so, unease was her closest companion as she stalked through Lord Nyx’s chambers, and having Thanatos leading her did not help matters.
Traversing Nyx’s home was not as simple as searching a house or a castle—even the one time Acacia had once ventured into the Minotaur’s Labyrinth on the island of Crete had been a less confusing ordeal than this. For a while, she was moving through an abyss of swirling stars and glowing celestial bodies against inky blackness, but then she would pop into a corridor of indigo marble accented with veins of silver, lit by hovering orbs of purplish light. After a few steps, she was thrust back into twisting shadows, dancing
