Tears of a Mortal, Regret of a God
Although I had never told the old priestess the details of my entanglement with the God of War, Pythia, who had lived for so long, had already guessed the general story from my broken state.
The old priestess turned her head and, with eyes that had seen through the life and death of the mortal world yet remained resilient, stared directly into Aresios's soul.
Aresios saw his own reflection clearly in her gaze: a face wracked with pain and regret, so pathetic that he could not utter a single word in his own defense.
His throat worked, as if filled with coarse sand. With all the strength of a war god, he could only force out a single, broken word.