For the Goddesses: For Daphne [Revised Edition]

Synopsis

"If you were to see him, you too would be unable to look away."

Daphne, a handmaiden to Artemis, the goddess of chastity, falls in love at first sight with Phoebus Apollo, the god of the sun.

But the price of loving a god was cruel.

A heart toyed with as a jest,

A one-sided love that never returns.

Then one day,

The young god's arrows pierce them both.

One filled with endless love,

The other bearing irrevocable hatred—

Daphne, who has forgotten love, and Phoebus, who has nothing left but love.

They become each other's salvation, and each other's ruin.

Can Daphne ultimately avoid the tragedy of being transformed into a tree?

What despair and regret will Phoebus Apollo face over a love that never returns?