"Medusa, sweetheart! Time for dinner!" A little girl with dark curls skipped along the daisy field, plucking the flowers as she headed towards her mother.
"Mommy! Look what I caught," Medusa replied, showing her mother the bunches of squished up daisies and a gardener snake she had caught in the field.
"Medusa, I told you no more snakes. EVER. But such beautiful flowers! Their lovely."
"Where did Stheno and Euryale go, Mommy?"
"They're at home, ready to eat. C'mon, sweetheart." At that Ceto swung Medusa up onto her shoulders and hurried back to their little house in Athens. Phorcys greeted his wife warmly, and hugged Medusa. By now, the children had gotten over their father's crab legs and rough skin, but every now and then, they wanted to know what crab really tasted like.
"Papa? Why do people always stare at me when I walk through the city? Is my hair messy?" This was not a new question to Phorcys, Ceto, or her sisters. See, Medusa had extreme beauty. Fine skin, deep green eyes, beautiful brown locks; all described her to be more beautiful than any other in Athens.
"C'mon, Medusa! Let's go back to the daisy field and catch snakes and pick flowers," Stheno and Euryale said in unison.
"No snakes, girls," Ceto corrected. "NO SNAKES."
"Yes ma'am."
~Nikki
Subject: Silence Was Golden Chapter One: The Daisy Fields