Athena

from the forehead of her father, she was born. her legacy: a jury trial for a matricide, a weaving contest with a spider, an allegiance to a hero of wit and sin.

Read "Athena and Eve" on creation.com with Christian-slanted analysis of parallels in imagery.

Athena's victory over Poseidon

Tara called me later that night, with David on the line.
Tara explained everything to David,
because she trusted him to listen.
David says that he and Tara will support me from afar.

Eroica was the first kiss, and Tara was the first everything.
Eroica was shining. The beauty of war filled my heart.
Kepler wrote about birth in De Stella Nova, but the star was a supernova.

Athena likes sewing, embroidery, knitting, etc.

The lawyer hatched a plan to set us up.
She created a test of my love,
one guaranteeing our union. Tara ruined it,
and so Eroica severed the link between us.

Gale is a secretary for Eroica.
She helped with the plan of Montreal,
to the chagrin of Catherine / Louise.

Eroica cannot control Tara,
which ruins her plans via butterfly effect.
Butterfly Conservatory.

Eroica has a plan for the world,
but Tara's existence thwarts it.
Eroica spoke to Sage / Fern (Flamel)

The Wind at Dawn is fiction. It shall admit as such.
Its characters are hyperreal, more real than real.
Tara Robles exists, but was distorted.

Eroica had Gale promise to never blow anyone's cover.
He follows the rule, but includes truth to spite her.
All because of her "betrayal".

Tara replaces Eroica as Gale's reader.
The two former lovers each create worlds.
Her through architecture, he through stories.

Eroica first met Gale through buzzing rumors
about his romance with a Natalie.
The freshman saw how well Gale composed himself.

Tara returns in twelfth grade instead?
Eroica goes to Italy with family,
and convinces Tara to return with her.

Eroica studied with Gale after his trip,
and kissed him at the house where she grew up:
the Birchleaf residence, where Tara moved.

Tara replaces Eroica only later.
Before, she was a pawn for her own cousin.
Eroica knew about the football game.

Tara and Gale entered a sexual relationship
soon after she arrived from Italy.
She heard the rumors, and was curious.

Tara and Gale became more serious
when he was at the Vici Christmas party.
Eroica orchestrated everything.

Eroica stays a friend to Gale through his breakup.
She was the one who went to Montreal,
and gave the order to forsake him.

Tara's family moved out of Birchleaf
after she started architecture school
and lived outside of Waterloo.

Eroica supported Gale's departure.
She was most disappointed in how he wasted time.
Her hopes for him were dashed, and misplaced.

Henceforth, the lawyer left the writer's life.
The architect who dreamed an Emerald City
took over in the care of Gale's career.