POV: Eros
He could save the mortal. But she chose first.
I want to be precise about the order of events because the order matters more than the events themselves in this case and I've been imprecise about it in my own internal reckoning for the fraction of a second between watching Kai go down and watching Aphrodite reach him, the fraction where the question of whether I would intervene was still technically open.
She reached him before the question closed.
