Chapter 22

• Athena lets out a blood curdling scream as she watches the girl on the floor, foam coming from her mouth and blood leaking from her eyes. Another dead body has been added on the floor of the throne room. Lucifer has had enough of this, and all the dead bodies around them. He stands up, with the love of his life in his arms, who has returned to sobbing uncontrollably. Holding her bridal style he walks out of the throne room, thankfully there aren't more guards or other demons dead on the floor.
• Not only is it hurting Athena but the mess it makes is difficult to clean up, especially when it's hard to see the blood, as the floor is black and once the floor is dry, there's no telling there was ever blood there in the first place. Lucifer holds her tightly in his arms as if his life depends on it, and perhaps it does. The two of them really do need a hug from each other as one of them was dead not so long ago and now they're together and they will get through this, somehow.
• Athena grew up in a peaceful village, the war hadn't touched that side of the country yet and there was no reason for her two brothers to ride across the country to fight in the war. The war had been going on for a few months, she doesn't know if it has ended or if it's still going on or it has reached her village yet. She might have only been in the Underworld for a few weeks, yet she feels like she has been there her whole life, she belongs there and never wants to leave the place she's now Queen of.