Technology: Plot Twist

Cassie swings the sword at Helen's neck and all Helen feels is "a strange, vibrating tickle, like someone had pressed a gigantic kazoo against her throat and blown on it" (Starcrossed 255). The sword Cassie had swung at her laid at her feet, mangled and crunched up in a manner much like tin foil. Noticing the mangled sword and a very alive and unharmed Helen, Cassie exclaimed in glee that she had been right and was thankful that Helen hadn't died, jumping up and down whilst hugging her.

Once upon a time, a prince of Thebes was born with a hideous prophecy: he was fated to sleep with his mother. Determined to prevent that prophecy from coming true, the prince's mother took immediate action. She ordered a shepherd to get rid of the boy, and the shepherd stole the boy far away, to another land. In that other land, the prince was raised up by a different mother. Until one day, the prince got curious about his future and visited an oracle. There the prince heard a hideous prophecy: he was fated to sleep with his mother. Determined to prevent that prophecy from coming true, the prince took immediate action. Fleeing the home of the only mother he'd known, he journeyed far away to another land, until he came to a city known as Thebes, where he met a lovely widowed queen...