Orion lowers herself into Theos embrace. Locking his arms around. "I'm so sorry Rion. I'm so fucking sorry."
She just looked over at her brother lying dead on the floor falling to her knees she weeps.
Orion spent the next few days isolated in her room. Anyone who came to her door was met with the same fate. A dagger at the door frame.
She didn't want anyone to see her in such a weakened state.
Absolutely distraught over her brother.
Sera had enough of Orions brutish coping skills.
"That's enough, get out of bed and quit putting holes in your wall" she said ducking the dagger that flew over her head
"Get out" Orion growled.
"No you get up" sera matching Orions stubbornness.
"As much as you want to quit and throw in the towel. You can't." Sera closing in on the wild out of control Orion.
"Theo isn't here right now to pull you out of this funk. So I'm the best you got for now"
"He was taken from me!" Orion screamed.
"Yeah and you made the guy who took him from you eat his own heart…"
***
Shit. I really did make him eat his own heart. I can't believe I did that?
Since that night I could feel myself change. Something had happened and it brought me to a place where I connected with the Netherworld now. Where I could feel its presence like it was a being all it own. It was me but it also wasn't me. It was like a version of me in it's purest form. Raw unadulterated instinct. The power that coursed through me was one of pure impulse. That if I didn't tread lightly I could drown the world in shadows. Realizing this was one of the reason I locked myself away. It wasn't just losing my brother. It's what losing him also did to me.
I needed Theo. His presence brought me peace. Without him my entire being was restless. The energy constantly humming in my body.
I couldn't explain this to Sera. She couldn't understand how afraid I was of myself now knowing I'm capable of ripping a man's heart from his chest and making him eat it.
But I let Sera approach me and when she got close enough she engulfed me with her love and compassion and when she did. I crumbled in her arms.
"Ri, things aren't okay right now. But they will be."