( it puts a cold dread in her stomach to imagine her home, destroyed. she closes her eyes as she shakes off the feeling, because at least most of her sisters have made it into stasis, though they have yet to wake. )

After his battle with Ares, Zeus struck him down and created an island to protect us, that we may ready for a time that Ares might rise again. We were hidden from humanity, and so they remained, even after I left.