Iphigenia asks the Pythia about her fate. She answers:
Across
- 4. The glint of a sharp kiss on your skin.
- 7. At the heart of it all, immemorial, a beast and a bow.
- 8. You are made into a stranger. Somewhere, you learn to carve fate into bodies, the way they did yours.
- 9. Far away, walls shed libations of blood for your ghost.
- 11. The whispers of the gods become law.
Down
- 1. Something is missing. Your breath is stolen to fill an absence.
- 2. In your hands, her body—cold under the waves.
- 3. Where does the violence come from?
- 5. Who held the knife?
- 6. You are splayed on the stone. Through you, they decipher their fate.
- 7. On the shore, the sun bleaches the altar white.
- 10. The shadow of a girl, the shape of a sacrifice.
- 12. Who holds the knife now?