Ch. 197— Bonus Chapter: Hecate (2)

Ch. 197— Bonus Chapter: Hecate (2)

The Watcher in the Dark

The Underworld was not a place of fire or brimstone. It was not even a place of silence. It breathed like a living organism.

Hecate learned that quickly.

The first few days— or was it weeks?— in the Underworld felt like drifting through a dream that did not want her there. The land did not welcome the living, nor did it care for the dead. It was a world built from whispers, the lost, and the forgotten. The air was thick with memories that did not belong to her— fleeting visions of souls who had once tried to cheat death and failed. In a way she felt deeply connected to the place due to her powers.

She had refused Hades' offer.

She was not one to kneel.

She did not belong to the Titans, nor did she swear fealty to Olympus, and she would not swear it to the god of the dead.

And yet— she did not leave.