Herodotus picked up the dagger and rose to his feet. "She was born, that is what she did. Have you ever noticed something different about her Sophia? Look at me. Now think about Hecuba and Lila. Now think about her."

Sophia eyes grew when she realized what he was talking about. "She’s not yours, is she?"

"No."

"So, you think that because she’s not yours that gave you the right to do what you did? She loved you. You were the only father she ever knew. My gods, you had a gift from the gods, and you abused and tried to destroy it." Sophia swiped her hands through her hair, trying to control the rage the brewed inside. "Do you know who her father really is?"

Herodotus smiled. Then before Sophia could re-acted he plunged the knife into himself. She ran to him.

"No! No, tell me Herodotus." His eyes turned glassy and rolled into the back of his head. Sophia shook her head. She reached down into her small bag and pulled out a coin and placed it in his mouth, "Got to make sure that you make it to Tartarus."

She lowered him to the ground. She walked over to her horse, as pain throbbed through her head. Herodotus’ death was supposed to be the release for her pinned up rage, but his actions denied her. *Who knew he still had some honor?* She knew that honor had nothing to do with it. *He manage to spill a piece of information that he knew would hurt her, and took his life before I could make him tell me the truth. You were a piece of work, Herodotus.*

She knew she couldn’t go to Amazonia, in the state that she was in. She needed release. She got on her steed and turned him towards Poteidaea. *Maybe I can get some answers from Hecuba,* she justified in her mind.

A bright light flickered three times and a puff of smoke appeared before her.

"Not now! Go away, Father."

"No." Ares crossed his arms in front of his chest. "I’m not going to let you do this."

Sophia jumped down from her horse. "This is not your concern."

"Like Tartarus its not. You can barely control your darkness. What makes you think you could control yours and Xena’s? Both of us know what is going to happen when you reach Poteidaea. You are going to wipe out that town."