Iphigenia asks the Pythia about her fate. She answers:

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