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Sing Muses. Sing to me a story of Olympus and the death of Scots who govern Earth,

sea and sky. That is what Perseus asks. His invocation is not even a whisper. It is silent

thought. The cap of Hades, one of Perseus's many gifts from Olympus, may render him as invisible

as death itself. But it does not muffle sound. It will not stop the Gorgons from hearing him as he

sneaks about their cave. The creatures ears are pointed like a bat, just as their teeth are

tusks like a ball, their toes talons like a bird. Their backs sport great Covid wings,

and their hair is a tangled mop of vipers. Perseus has seen two of the Gorgons sisters already,

and they are monstrous. Had they been mortal, he would have taken his sword,

its blade curved and keen as a waxing moon, and cut them down without a second thought.

But that is why he pauses now. That is why he asks for the Muses council. For the third Gorgon

sister, the one Perseus is found asleep by a fire in the cave's deepest hollow. The one he has

been instructed to kill, the one they say has the power to turn anything she sees to stone.

She is not like her sisters. She is beautiful.

Perseus are the coiling and uncoiling of grass snakes, but they frame a young face,

soft skin the colour of wet sand. She is winged too, but there is a tenderness in the way they

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