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

I say with a happy sigh, settling back down against him. "Explain. I am ignorant and wanting of knowledge of what is, apparently, my

best to embody bossy goddess energy. But Jackson's soft laughter just lets me know how deeply I've failed. "Okay, I'll listen," I say with a grin, snuggling against him.

all know, is...obsessed with your Grandmother. In some tellings of the mythology they're mates, in others they're just like...magnets, both drawn to each other or opposed inevitably according to whichever pole of the magnet they've got turned towards each

nod, weirdly understanding this and considering that for the past few hundred years

away, the stories say, he gets incredibly jealous. And he takes out that jealousy by...having a lot of affairs. Trying to

I whisper, a little delighted at the cosmic drama

Some of them are demigods, like you," I wiggle my shoulders back, preening, pleased to be included, "and some are...very nearly

how you'd

gets very...out of our realm of understanding. We exist in a

my lack of knowledge and

over

absent, getting lost in his thoughts. "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 frequently referred to religiously as the God of Death and

breathe, fascinated and

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