POV: Aphrodite
Leaders are not allowed to grieve loudly.
I awaken to a world that has continued without me.
This is the specific quality of waking after grief-sleep — the world has been running its own timeline through the days I was not in it, and what the world ran into is the specific shape of aftermath. The war is over in the sense that the divine command architecture is gone and the gods have retreated and the compulsion magic is no longer running through the wolves' lunar channels and the Moon Goddess's domain in the mortal world has been severed.
The chaos remains.
