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I woke up all of a sudden, and the silence was the first thing that hit me.
It wasn't the peaceful silence that came before dawn, when the palace was still asleep and the servants hadn’t begun their morning rounds.
I sat up on my bed, looking around my room. Everywhere was dark..
"Hello?" I called out, my voice sounding thin and fragile. "Zeus? Anyone?”
No answer.
I stood up from the bed and walking out my room, walking through the corridors, my bare feet slapping against the marble.
The palace was literally a ghost town. There were no maids, no guards standing at attention, no distant murmur of servants doing their thing. It was just me and a haunting, oppressive emptiness.
Then, I caught a scent, faint but unmistakable…sandalwood, rain, and the metallic tang of blood.
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