septuāgintā   ūnus

"Run, run, Vulcan. Run."

He kept saying to himself as he ran alongside the shore. His heart was jumpy and his head heavy. His legs were no longer his and his eyes were becoming dimmed.

He kept his limbs flowing in the air. He ran as quickly as he could.

He looked ahead of himself. The stretch of the shore towards where he was was very clear. There was nothing he could see.

He had no idea to where he was running. All that seemed to matter to him was the fact that he wanted to escape.

He dared not look at the back. He didn't know why. He had no idea if Medusa was still there. As he ran on, he noticed a gleam of light very very far from the path he was running towards.

One thing he knew for sure was the fact that he would collapse a million times before he would get there. No soothsayer needed to tell him that.

Then he heard waters whooshing behind him. He didn't look. He didn't want to.