We Bleed Red Melodies

Melinoë has somehow simultaneously experienced far more than anyone her age should have to; yet not experienced very much of life at all. As she begins to test herself more in the arts of war, venturing to the depths of the Underworld, and the tumultuous surface, interfacing with new Gods and mortals alike she realises that defeating a Titan doesn't give one any special ability to suddenly understand their own emotions. Not entirely surprising, then, that she doesn't immediately recognise the crush she has on Odysseus straight away. When she does, she makes a bit of a blunder in expressing them and discovers that real life and real love are far more complicated than the fairytale style stories she's read in books.Teaser: 'Some things she was starting to feel as holes in her, like missing teeth. Or like her missing home and blood family. So much of her life was defined by absence, by things she had never had, sensations she had never felt.She’d never been kissed. She’d never been in love. She’d never even felt the hunger every being, even gods, was supposed to feel for that sort of thing. It, like so much else in her life, made itself known by the creeping doubt she felt inside for missing it.'