Everyone is well over eighteen.
Medea knew she was taking a chance, but she needed the blood of a god for the potion to work. Passing through her garden, the scent of jasmine and sandalwood heavy on the night breeze, she told herself that she would be all right, that there was no risk in what she was doing. And anyone watching her pass would have agreed. Medea was beautiful, an enchantress with black hair and dark eyes, slim and sensuous. And no one was her equal in magic, except maybe her aunt, Circe.
Tonight, she was on a mission.
In the pocket of her sheer blue gown that only enhanced her soft full breasts and rouged nipples were several bulbs of opium, the white sap thick and potent. They were her bargaining chips to assure her there would be no future retaliation.
Although she needed his blood, there was a belief among the priestly caste that the chained god would soon be free. She needed to make sure he did not turn his anger against her once he was free.
Her dragons, sensuous snakes of the sky, flew swift and sure into the dark mountains to the crag where Prometheus lay chained. She had seen him once before, the god who had loved humanity too much, a creature condemned to suffer the most terrible of fates. How many days and nights had he lain in the cold and biting wind, his body food for demonic birds? How many mornings awoke to his screams?
Like all immortals, he was beautiful, so her thoughts sometimes wandered to other things. Did he miss tender touches and kisses? Did his body ever hunger for release? She considered that as a bargaining chip.
The dragons their immortal light illuminating the barren land around them lit upon the only flat ground they could find. Medea stepped out of the chariot and made her way towards the Titan. She could see him in the faint light of the moon, chained to a rock, his bed for the Ages. He was watching her, and no doubt already knew why she was there and what she carried in her pocket. He might even be aware of her stray thoughts. He was after all the farsighted.
But not so farsighted if he believed Athena would have stood up to her lying father for him. She heard the scrape of chains on rock as he tried to move to get a better look at her.
Prometheus, the eternal idealistic youth, forever young, forever damned. By the light of day his long hair was the color of sun-bleached autumn fields, his eyes were the color of the ever-changing sky before a winter storm. At night, he was just a shape on a rock. The perfect shape of a man.
In that faint light she could see just enough of him to tell that even after countless centuries of sun and wind and cold, he was still flawless. Gods were that way. His hands chained over his head and his feet chained at the other end of the boulder had him stretched taunt. He was so beautiful.