Melanie

“Nefertari, Ahmose’s grandmother, stood beside the king’s throne, one hand on her daughter’s shoulder. She was the God’s Wife of Amun, the highest priest in the empire, and possessed of nearly as much power as the Pharaoh himself.”
― Libbie Hawker, The Sekhmet Bed

“Angry that Zeus had put her firstborns, the Titans, in Tartarus, Gaea unleashed two terrible creatures onto the world—Typhon, father of all monsters, and his mate Echidna. Typhon was so mighty and so big, that his heads touched the sky, and his eyes leaked venom, and magma dripped from all his mouths. So mighty he was that when the new gods saw him, they all turned and fled in terror.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Trials

“…thus Zeus looked upon his creation and said: “Not everything is as it seems, rather what you make of it. Even fear can be your worst enemy when you treat it as such, and your best ally when you put it to good use. So, see, not only what is, but what could be.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Trials

“The new gods sat on their high thrones in the Palace over the clouds, and Zeus sat highest of all with his thunderbolts at his side. Only Hades, the eldest of them, god of the dead, remained in his own Palace in his dark kingdom—the Underworld. There were no more wars, no more monsters coming to claim their right to rule, but only they, among themselves, sometimes argued and sometimes fought. Zeus with his thunderbolts, stronger than all other gods combined, had but to raise his thunder, and order would fall in place among his fellow gods once more.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Trials