For the first time, Aren could hear Athena clearly.
"When we walked into the trial, it started out fine, we faced Minotaurs there and we were winning." She paused when it got to this point, and Aren saw a tear form in her eyes, but he did nothing yet, beyond watching and listening to her.
"Then it all went bad, the Minotaurs managed to surround us, and we started taking damage, no, the guys did, because whatever came close to me was destroyed.
I asked to help, but they refused, saying they had depended on me far too much over the trials, they could face this. It seems our meeting with you showed them that they depended on me too much, but I never minded that." Her words cracked at that point.
"That's where it all went bad." She said. She grabbed the sheets on the bed hard, her tears falling down from her face onto her lap now. She started shaking slowly.
