chapter 6: perseus and medusa
3: CASTAWAYS
To defy fate, King Akrisios casts my mother and me into the sea inside a bronze chest, left to drift between life and death. Waves crash and thunder roars, but Zeus’s favor carries us to safety on the shores of Seriphos. A humble fisherman named Diktys rescues us, raising me in kindness while his brother, King Polydectes, schemes in secret. Even as I grow, I sense that peace will not last.
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