The Devil's Broken Doll
To force.
Apollo was driven from the sky.
He did not fall as one defeated, nor was he cast aside like a force spent. He was driven downward with such violence that the air itself tore, his descent carving a jagged wound through smoke and flame, as if the heavens had been struck and split beneath the weight of that single, deliberate blow. It was not a fall, but an exile enforced. The impact followed a heartbeat later, distant yet unmistakable, a deep, concussive detonation rolling across the battlefield in a widening wave, less precise than the strike that birthed it, but no less powerful, carrying through stone and bone alike, reverberating through the marrow with the echo of finality.