The Daughter of Zeus novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Edge
"Come in," Hera said.
"You are just in time."
The war god stood on the far side of the pool with four guards.
A herald stood beside them with a ledger and a pen, writing already.
Nobody in that room was surprised to see us.
"Let her go," I said.
"In a moment."
Hera patted my mother's shoulder.
"June Weatherly will swear on this water, before a witness, that she walked into the woods of her own free will.
That she was hiding from a husband she was tired of.
That the queen did no more than grant her wish."
"That's a lie," I said.
"It is a story," said Hera.
"The water judges whether it is true."
I understood then.
If June swore it and the Styx called it false, she burned.
If she swore it and the water took it, Hera's law was clean, and so was the trap.
And if she refused to swear, the queen would throw her in anyway and call it a verdict.
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