Hades has just called me over to see him - apparently they've finally got the lab reports back on what killed me, and he thinks I could do with knowing, says it could change my perspective on life. He actually looks a bit surprised. Ok, so I'll play along a bit. I agree to go to his office and he tells me what the results say. And he's right - it really is a surprise and rather a nasty shock.
They've found traces of a special kind of poison in my blood - the sort of poison that only a god or goddess could come up with. It's one that doesn't really exist out there - it has to be made specially. Apparently this one's about 10 times as poisonous as a snake bite, and it kills you so quickly you don't even know you're dead. The lab results also say that I didn't eat it, or drink it but that at the exact moment the snake bit me, a poisoned dart hit my ankle and that was that. A very accurate shot - apparently it hit exactly in the middle of where the snake had bitten. The only way they spotted it was because snakes don't usually have three fangs, and there were three tiny holes in my ankle. So my theory about who got me goes out of the window straight away- there's no way that my sudden demise was anything to do with that slapper or any of her friends. She couldn't have hit an elephant's ankle, never mind mine.
It does, as he suggested it would, make me have a different outlook on life, and for some reason, it doesn't make me feel too good. Not at all. I've gone all my life trying not to upset the gods, in fact I can't think of anything I've done that would piss them off enough to make any of them do this to me, not ever.
Now I really do feel paranoid. Why would one of them do this to me? And if they'd do this to me then, what chance have I got of (a) escaping from down here, and (b) surviving long enough after I'm rescued to make it worth doing. Mortals trying to kill you you can just about cope with, but gods ? No chance of escaping them for long. Great. I feel like I'm doomed - but I still can't work out why me - I've done nothing wrong that I can think of.
Hades says that it does happen sometimes - mistaken identity and stuff like that - but he reckons that doesn't apply in this case, it all seems to be too accurate, too personal - he suggests that, rather than me, it might be down to someone I'm close to - and that maybe I should ask him up there if he's done anything to piss off a god or two. I say that I would, if he actually turns up down here to rescue me - otherwise there's not a lot of point, is there ?
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