‘’Mortal.’’ A deep voice flowered in her mind, shaking her tired consciousness and yanking it into the dream world.
Selene couldn’t look around in the dream and it was strange that she could recognize she was in a dream. Last time…well last time and the time before that she was in a pool of blood the entire time and she only found it a little strange after waking up. Here, there was nothing that could be spoken of as a pool of blood. In fact, there wasn’t anything that could be spoken of period. There was only light, which seeped into every corner of her consciousness. It was overbearing, stinging and burning her consciousness, and if Selene could feel her eyes, they would have been blinded by the pure white beams streaming past her like holy rivers.
‘’Okay now I’m dead.’’ Selene thought. Immediately though, she heard her voice echo the sentence back. Her thoughts were instantly verbalized right in front of her without her lips so much as moving.
‘’Oh no, no my dear.’’ The silky voice sauntered closer. ‘’That would be a terrible shame if you were.’’
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‘’You keep saying that, but things have not been making much sense since I arrived on this island.’’
The voice ‘oh’-ed and ‘ah’-ed, as if recalling a dramatic event which had definitely been their fault. ‘’Now, about that… That little stunt was all Poseidon’s fault. See - he tried to interfere with a little bet we made.’’
The voice paused to laugh cryptically and Selene metaphysically scrunched her face up. What was always so funny and why was she never included? Bet? Was she the bet? She asked these words, hoping for them to materialize like the first ones she spoke, but instead only the stranger’s voice echoed around her.
“…Well I’ve done my fair share of interfering but it was just so barbaric what was happening to you my little mortal.’’ The voice continued as the giggles subsided. “I hope my little brother isn’t too much of a pain in the a- oh what am I saying of course he is!’’
Selene concluded whichever of the twelve this was, they really liked the sound of their voice. “...Hermes?’’
The voice hummed in agreement and thinly veiled joy behind an even more thinly veiled anger. “Tell him I said hi.’’
“From?’’
The voice hummed again, not even regarding her fully. “Oh…you have company… I’ll leave you to it then, mortal~’’ She could feel the presence lean away, finally retreating away from her personal bubble. The light was leaving. But her questions! She had so many! It couldn’t end like this again!
It couldn’t-