Episode 2.1.b
>Unknown Location, Inside the Fabula Lapidis<
The battle takes you. You strike and are struck back. The ground rises and falls. Gods and Titans collide like weather systems. Then, all at once, it stops.
Jupiter and Saturn stand together on the peak. Between them, the final blow is still coming.
"Not you," Jupiter shouts. "Not anymore. You are no longer the king of the gods. I am."
He throws the lightning bolt. Saturn falls: through the sky, through the air, through the ground, and keeps falling. Where he lands, something hits the earth with a force that shakes the mountain down to its roots.
It was a stone. The stone Saturn swallowed years ago, when the infant Jupiter was hidden from him. When Saturn struck the ground, the stone broke apart. Two pieces now lie in the settling dust: one large, one small. Both of them catch the light in a way that has nothing to do with the sun.
Jupiter takes the larger piece and carries it up to his mountain. The smaller piece stays where it fell.
Sextus is very still beside you.
"Every god on Olympus wants that stone," he says quietly. He looks at you. "Which of them should have it?"
Every Olympian is watching. Sextus is watching.
Prompt: Decide which Olympian should receive the Lapis and explain why.
