Run! (Book I)
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Table of Contents
Recap & Status "I Run" "The Only Sounds in All of Thebes" "A Prayer to Echion" "Inside the Citadel" "The Knife!" "What I See" "Scarred by the Battle of Fifty Brothers" "Downhill Into Udaius's Ward" "Gossip Among the Echionai" "The Main Road" "Looking Back" "Acknowledged" "Together Through the Spartoi Wards" "I Imagine Androkleia" "Just So" "A Fickleness of Prophecy" "Chores Without End" "Toward the Graveyard of Humanity" "The Finish Line" Copyright"The Only Sounds in All of Thebes"
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The pounding of my sandals.
My gasping, sucking breaths.
The drumbeat in my chest.
And something else I have to strain to hear . . .
There!
A footfall from behind,
like the one that first prodded me
from a stroll into a run.
There!
Another step-sound,
like the one that diverted my quest for water
into a panicked escape through this city
of crime and disease . . .
There!
And again!
And closer!
And yet each time I turn my head,
the steps
come only
from the empty air.
I lean into the hill, legs pumping at a deerfooted pace
like Actaeon must have felt
fleeing Artemis
and his own hounds.
The road slopes upward toward Echion's Gate
on the west side
of a wall made from
rocks and boulders
mashed together
by one-eyed giants.
Perched atop the gate,
the face of Echion
Screams!
his silent battle cry.
BE A DEMIGOD!
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