Chose a liar? Your loss, My Gain

Daniela, daughter of the dawn goddess Eos and leader of the dawn elves, buried her divine power for ten years to protect the pride of her husband Alexander, son of the war god Ares. He had told her he disliked women who overdressed, so she dressed plainly. On their wedding day, fire engulfs the temple. Trapped in her gown, Daniela watches through the smoke as Alexander rushes in, scoops up her stepsister Joyce, and walks out without a single backward glance. A stranger pulls her from the flames before she loses consciousness. When she wakes, Alexander is in the exclusive healing chamber upstairs with Joyce, whose only injury is a scratch. Joyce tells their father Caiden that Daniela pushed her, that it was murder. Stepmother Katrina, a mortal who married Caiden after Daniela's mother returned to the stars, adds that Daniela has no divine power and has always resented Joyce. Alexander orders Daniela to kneel and apologize. She looks at him, still holding a sliver of hope for one word of belief. He says, "Apologize now." She asks for a divorce. He calls her pathetic and signs. Lillian, her most loyal aide, retrieves her. Back at Dawn's Reach, Daniela transforms. She delivers the divorce papers and plays Joyce's private confession—recorded as Joyce gloated alone—for the entire divine realm to hear.

The recording spreads across Olympus. Joyce's voice admits she planned the fire, that Alexander and Caiden were too blind to see it. Alexander's war temple becomes a joke. His father Ares orders him to find Daniela and silence her, but she has vanished. For three months, she recovers in Apollo's temple, watching Alexander's scandal spread. When the Lady of Dawn returns to the divine realm with banners flying, Alexander and Joyce, sent by Ares to buy a gift for the mysterious lady, arrive with the dawn badge Daniela once gave Caiden—not realizing they are about to present it to the woman they destroyed. Joshua, a prominent merchant, greets Daniela as his lady without hesitation. Joyce screams that it is impossible, that Daniela has no divine power. But the sacred bell soon proclaims Daniela's identity to all Olympus. She dismisses their gift and orders an identity recognition array installed, barring anyone without clearance from entering her temple. Caiden calls demanding houses. Daniela's aide informs him the lady does not take calls from outsiders. He had publicly disowned her a month ago; now she returns the silence. Apollo stays close, never demanding, just guarding. Daniela has chosen the god who lifted her, not the man who broke her.