"What?" I ask Cronus my voice hoarse from my weeping.
"I don't quite know the reason but he left without a word." Cronus says wiping my stray tears softly with his thumb.
I nod looking away swallowing the lump in my throat that keeps coming back. "He made his decision. So be it." I get up and stride quickly to the comfort of my room ignoring the calls of Cronus.
Falling upon the bed I turn to my side looking outside the window. As the pitch back sky overtakes the light so does Deimos as he overtakes my thoughts drowning me in painful agony as my tears sing a lullaby dampening the pillow cover softly lulling me to sleep.
And so, as daylight came the next day and the day after that. I stayed in Cronus's pack as if Deimos never came. As if nothing had happened. Cronus never aske
