HERA
When I was younger and in the days before it happened, my mom would always tell me.
“Someday Hera, that fast moving, pretty mouth of yours is going to get you into real trouble.”
She had been right.
I had the scars on my back to prove it.
What she hadn’t factored in was that when you’re me, you can get in real trouble a great deal more than once and that on some days; you wouldn’t even need your mouth to help move things along.
Today is one of those days, but even I don’t know that yet.
I watch him ride out the palace grounds.
Certain any moment now, he would turn around and come back to lock me somewhere where all my plans would be ruined.
But he doesn’t look back.
Maybe the gods are finally on my side for once.
Even though I was unconscious when I first landed here, I
