WHO Calliope and Kratos WHEN a long long time ago WHERE Mount Olympus WHAT a girl becomes a woman WARNINGS old timey smut
Calliope tucked a curl of her dark hair over her ear. She waited, a little out of sight of the bower, for Kratos to come.
Her sisters were all attending to their lessons. Urania was keeping an eye on them all for her tonight. She had begged a headache of the rest, but to Urania she had told her true intentions, and her sister had nodded and trusted her reasons, because she too caught the eye of Apollo when he visited with them, to lead them in chorus, teach them how to pluck the lyre and dance with graceful feet.
She was clever, and she could listen, and she watched her great father Zeus when he talked of matching his beautiful Muses for marriage- but if Apollo claimed the girls as they became women, who would gainsay him? She trusted Apollo, but she was a little afraid of him, and his strength, his confidence. She did not know if he would be gentle with her.
So she had sent a message for Kratos to meet her in secret, in the bower behind a small temple to Hera Parthénos. Kratos could be trusted to listen. He had kept her safe all her life, he would surely keep her safe now, but she was more nervous than she’d expected to be. She found herself waiting out of sight, to give herself a chance to change her mind.