![]() ![]() Children laughing, couples leaning in together as they took pictures. Which he’d given her freely as a boy, but after centuries of being alone, he wanted more.ĭay in and day out, he watched as families strolled through the old sacred grounds. She’d saved him from death once as a plague swept through his home island, raised him as one of her own, and in return, she asked for his service, his allegiance. Acontius had listened to the goddess curse the names of her patrons as they forgot her and called her a myth and no more.Ī myth couldn’t bring a mortal to their knees.Īt a young age, Acontius had witnessed what Artemis was capable of: love, wrath, vengeance. ![]() ![]() Eventually, patrons gave up and said it was the will of the gods that the temple remain in ruins. There wasn’t much left of Artemis’ temple, which had been rebuilt thrice in the past thousands of years. Tourists milled around the dirt pathway in front of the temple’s ruins. ![]()
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