ASH I didn't know what was happening. He shifted uncomfortably in the chair and stared at me. My dad./ The one man whose crown held the nine emeralds and rubys that shone with every twitch of his body. Snakes, elephants and a rhino popped out of his either head and a perfect lion face gawked at me, not in surprise or shock, but in a playful suspicion like he would punish me with the fire out of his mouth and his long nails that held to the throne's either limb. His entire lion's body filled the throne and I remained, head down, like everybody else, no special affirmation or decline despite being his son for all the years I had known him. My dad. Hades. "What else could happen? You just finished using your whole powers!" I raised my brows in suspicion, "What does that mean?' "You c