For You I Will

Before Odysseus. Before the songs. Before men called her monster.

Circe was the daughter of Helios, born into a divine court where beauty was currency, daughters were property, and silence kept powerful men comfortable. Her magic was dismissed as vulgar until the night it revealed the truth of a lord's cruelty and changed him into what he had always been beneath the silk, gold, and title.

A pig.

Sent to Aiaia in disgrace, Circe expects exile. Instead, she finds an island older than her father'...