Early Draft of a Chapter

Confronting Tyre

She was following behind him at a respectful distance. Tyre had grown even taller. He stood as tall as any Minotaur she had seen, his body was wide, but muscular and his face carried a smile, but his eyes were calculating and measuring. He carried the seed back in his hand. It was twirling madly, lights flashing off it.
Penny took a step back in shock. "Who are you?"
"I should be the one to ask you that. You claim to be an my old nanny, but not many nanny's would have a seed from Hell itself. When I was a child, I hadn't known where the seed had come from. But things," he lifted the seed high in the the air and then brought it quickly to his mouth to eat it, "have changed."
"You fool. You damn yourself to eat the seed if you are not pure in spirit." She stabbed her staff into the ground, causing it to swell up, lifting her to be face to face with the large Tyre. "You are the prince of Arcadia, but you are something more," she said. "Someone has decided to share their essence with you."
"I have become more than a Centaur, I am Marduk reborn. Tyre is dead."
She placed her wrinkled and arthritic hand on Tyre's face. "Is there nothing of the boy in there that I used to hold and care for?"
He pushed her hand away, his strength was immense. Marduk had been a very powerful god once, even defeating a dragon. "Tyre is dead. Only I remain. You must be Innana or Ishtar. I recognize your stink." He held her wrist, trying to crush it, but she wasn't so easily defeated.
"All those old stories have been mixed with other old stories and none of them are quite true. I was once known as Innana, but Ishtar was Venus's old name. I went into the underworld, but she pretended she was me, who had returned from the underworld, and ruined my good name for thousands of years. If you are Marduk, then you should know I will not let you take Tyre from me."
With a shrug of her shoulders, she threw off her cloak. Her appearance changed, her golden and marble body shone brightly, blinding every mortal near her. She spoke Logos into existence and Marduk/Tyre screamed as the soul of Marduk was ripped away from Tyre. Tyre tried to grab the soul of Marduk and pull it back into him, but it was like a vapor and started to dissipate under the bright light pouring out of Penny.
"No," Tyre cried out and turned from trying to stop Marduk from escaping and hit Penny as hard as he could. Harder than he could hit on his own. Penny stumbled back, her light faltering and Marduk's soul raced back into Tyre.
"No," Marduk said, his head down. Then he lifted it up and spat, "No," into her face and pulled a bronze knife off his belt and tried to stab her in the heart. She deflected the blow, but it tore through her robes and scratched her arm, her golden blood splattering out. She spoke and her arm healed enough to stop bleeding while she jumped back. She hadn't come to start a fight and she was outmatched by Marduk face to face. And she had given him the seed which would damn Tyre, but also allow Marduk to gain full control over the body, bringing what was left of his mangled spirit into Tyre.
"I came here to tell you that Arcadia was in trouble and your first instinct is to murder me? You're people don't deserve you." She turned on her heel, opened a gateway, and stepped through, slamming it behind her. The shockwave of it slamming knocked them to the ground and cracked the keep's gatehouse.