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Artemis was crouched on a sturdy pine branch, an arrow nocked, every muscle in her body taut as her bow string. An unsuspecting stag was wandering closer to her by the moment, grazing on the foliage poking out of the snow. Just a few more steps, and she would have a perfect shot through the trees. She didn’t blink, didn’t breathe - waiting in perfect stillness and silence for the right moment to strike.
When it came, she loosed the arrow without hesitation, her only movement a slight shift of her fingers. She knew the arrow would hit its target as soon as it left her bow. Of course it would - she was not the Goddess of the Hunt for nothing. However, much to her rage, a second arrow flew out of the brush and hit the stag at the same moment her’s found its target, perhaps just an inch to the left.
“Apollo!” Her outburst cut through the silence of the forest, the thud of the deer dropping to the ground covering up the sound of her own feet landing lightly in the snow. She turned to scowl at her brother, kicking a bit of slush at him. “Fuck off, you knew that one was mine.”