CHAPTER 46
ARESA day later, we stood at the river’s base, where we had entered the underworld. Today, we were going home. Home—where I had been born into Mars’s body, where I had met Aurora, where this had all started.
“I don’t know if I’ll be able to leave,” Mars said to Aurora, stopping just short of Charon’s ferry that led back to the area where Medusa had spawned us in so long ago.
Hades had advised us to head over the river and that Medusa would be waiting for us to get back home.
“What do you mean?” Aurora whispered, curling her fingers against Mars’s chest, her eyes watering. “You have to be able to come home. I’m not going anywhere without you. You-you have to come with us.”
“I’m nothing but a spirit,” Mars said, glancing down at his misty body.
Someone cleared her throat beh
