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Mar. 27th, 2008 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dovelikeEirene stares up at the massive Doric columes holding up the front of her father's house, and wonders (not for the first time) if he really understands the meaning of the word subtle. Probably not. A glance behind her shows her mother's house in the distance, at the opposite end of the country lane. If things go bad, she can always run home, right? Right.
Biting her lip, the goddess finally leans forward and knocks on the front door.
* * *
"Daddy, I'm not trying to undermine your authority! But I won't marry Phobos."
"Thallo Eirene, you will do exactly what I tell you to. If I tell you to marry him, then that is what I expect you to do. I love you, daughter, but this instance on stepping outside of--"
"Daddy. Please listen to me. He beat me into unconsciousness. I don't love him. I couldn't. I would rather die, permenantly, than put myself into the hands--"
"Eirene! Enough. I am the Patriarch of this family, and I have allowed your insolence twice in the past. Do not defy me again. You will marry Phobos because he has properly asked for your hand in marriage. He comes from good lineage."
"No, Daddy. I am not going to marry him. This you cannot make me do!"
Eirene's head snaps to the side, a bruise from her father's hand already starting to form.
"I expected more of you, child. You're one of my favorites, Eirene, whom I love dearly. Where is all this defiance coming from?" Zeus sounds almost petulant through his anger.
For the first time, the goddess takes a step back, some of her own anger fading in the wake of her father's fury. And he is furious. One can hear thunder in the distance, despite the fact that it's a lovely spring day.
"I love you, Eirene. I do. But I .. I cannot tolerate disobedience of this magnitude. First you demanded I curb my own brother's sexual appetites, and then you defy my orders not to touch Perseus? You cursed Herakles, Eirene. My son!"
She takes another step back, her face paling at the bolt of lightning forming above her father's palm. He wouldn't destroy her like that. Would he? But it's too late for second thoughts, as the bolt streaks toward her, and then envelops her in it's fiery, beautiful agony.
Eirene screams.
* * *
"Mother, she's waking up. Nomi, go get some of that water."
Dike is the first person Eirene sees, and for a split second wonders if she died and ended up in the Fields. But, no, Themis is there too, the blonde goddess's features so much like her younger set of daughters.
" 'rene, " Dike moves in front of her mother, settling down on the bed next to her youngest sister. "Don't worry about anything, okay? Father won't think to look here for you yet, and mother said that she would bar him from the house if necessary. Just ... stay there and don't move."
We don't want anything else to happen to you.
Eirene can see the unspoken words in her sister's eyes, and it terrifies her. Eunomia appears with a glass of water, holding it out silently, and all three of her immediate family members watch as she drinks from the glass in silence.
She's still sore, can still almost feel the bursts of electricity as they consumed her body.
She looks exactly as she did before she entered her father's house the day before. But she's not the same underneath the skin.
Eirene -- Thallo Eirene -- Goddess of Peace, Spring Incarnate, once favored above most of her sisters...
... is now mortal.
Biting her lip, the goddess finally leans forward and knocks on the front door.
* * *
"Daddy, I'm not trying to undermine your authority! But I won't marry Phobos."
"Thallo Eirene, you will do exactly what I tell you to. If I tell you to marry him, then that is what I expect you to do. I love you, daughter, but this instance on stepping outside of--"
"Daddy. Please listen to me. He beat me into unconsciousness. I don't love him. I couldn't. I would rather die, permenantly, than put myself into the hands--"
"Eirene! Enough. I am the Patriarch of this family, and I have allowed your insolence twice in the past. Do not defy me again. You will marry Phobos because he has properly asked for your hand in marriage. He comes from good lineage."
"No, Daddy. I am not going to marry him. This you cannot make me do!"
Eirene's head snaps to the side, a bruise from her father's hand already starting to form.
"I expected more of you, child. You're one of my favorites, Eirene, whom I love dearly. Where is all this defiance coming from?" Zeus sounds almost petulant through his anger.
For the first time, the goddess takes a step back, some of her own anger fading in the wake of her father's fury. And he is furious. One can hear thunder in the distance, despite the fact that it's a lovely spring day.
"I love you, Eirene. I do. But I .. I cannot tolerate disobedience of this magnitude. First you demanded I curb my own brother's sexual appetites, and then you defy my orders not to touch Perseus? You cursed Herakles, Eirene. My son!"
She takes another step back, her face paling at the bolt of lightning forming above her father's palm. He wouldn't destroy her like that. Would he? But it's too late for second thoughts, as the bolt streaks toward her, and then envelops her in it's fiery, beautiful agony.
Eirene screams.
* * *
"Mother, she's waking up. Nomi, go get some of that water."
Dike is the first person Eirene sees, and for a split second wonders if she died and ended up in the Fields. But, no, Themis is there too, the blonde goddess's features so much like her younger set of daughters.
" 'rene, " Dike moves in front of her mother, settling down on the bed next to her youngest sister. "Don't worry about anything, okay? Father won't think to look here for you yet, and mother said that she would bar him from the house if necessary. Just ... stay there and don't move."
We don't want anything else to happen to you.
Eirene can see the unspoken words in her sister's eyes, and it terrifies her. Eunomia appears with a glass of water, holding it out silently, and all three of her immediate family members watch as she drinks from the glass in silence.
She's still sore, can still almost feel the bursts of electricity as they consumed her body.
She looks exactly as she did before she entered her father's house the day before. But she's not the same underneath the skin.
Eirene -- Thallo Eirene -- Goddess of Peace, Spring Incarnate, once favored above most of her sisters...
... is now mortal.