Audentis Fortuna Iuvat

It might have just been me but I felt like the palace had tripled in size from my last visit. Where corridors had led into ruins, sleek black passages led to another room and then another, each one larger than the one before. We were standing gaping at twelve towering thrones, I imagined that it must have been a shadowy replica of the god's palace of Mt Olympus.

Dakota muttered a latin curse under his breath.

"Couldn't have said it better." I agreed.

"What now?" Leila turned to Jason.

The son of Jupiter frowned. "There should be more guards around here somewhere. This isn't... right." He looked around at the hollow throne room, his whispers echoing back at him from the ominous walls.

"What about the titans?" Colin asked, holding his pike tight to him like a security blanket. His blue eyes glinted with fear from under a helmet much too big for him. He was far too young to be on a quest like this, but he was a strong son of Trivia and knew how to manipulate the mist in ways that none of his siblings dared try.

"Maybe they've left?" Aliyah suggested hopefully.

And then we heard the footsteps.

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