Chapter 0607

"And one of the children of the God of Darkness," I murmur, frowning, likewise staring into space. "Ole Darkie."

Jackson laughs at the Goddess's nickname for her ex. "And he's got enough of those to choose from," he murmurs. "So we'll maybe never know."

"Wait, what?" I say, sitting up a bit to peer down at him. "How many children does he have?"

"Like, a lot, Ariel," Jackson replies, frowning up at me. "Famously."

"What!?"

Jackson laughs lightly, pulling me down against him. "You need to study your religious texts, Clark," he murmurs, brushing his lips again over my hair. "This is your nation's religion too."

"I don't study religion," I say, shaking my hair haughtily back, making my voice hoity-toity and smug. "I am religion - I am a demigoddess, after all."

I am kidding and making bold excuses for my

"Explain. I am ignorant and wanting of knowledge of what is, apparently, my own family tree.

demand, supplicant," I growl, trying to do my best to embody bossy goddess energy. But Jackson's soft laughter just lets me

in others they're just like...magnets, both drawn to each other or opposed inevitably according to whichever pole

and considering that for the past few hundred years or so - if not thousands

stories say, he gets incredibly jealous. And he takes

I whisper, a little delighted at the

affairs have resulted in kids. Some of them are just... normal kids - humans, wolves. Some of them are demigods, like you," I wiggle my shoulders back, preening, pleased to be included, "and some are...very nearly full-on

frowning. "Like...I can see how you'd make a demigod, but who

shrug. "It all gets very...out of our realm of understanding. We exist in a completely different plane

to make peace with my

over

"Especially the older ones. His two eldest children and the ones that I think the Goddess your grandmother is most bitter about – are twins. They're

I breathe,

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