Hyale

**Hyale** was a suspect in the murder investigation of Ganymede in The Dead Air of Murder (Case #33 of Graecita) and Carmelo Fandino in See In Scarlet (Case #35 of Graecita) before getting murdered in Unbreathe Me (Case #36 of Graecita). She also made a quasi-appearance in Saddle Up! (Case #34 of Graecita) and a minor appearance in Natural Causes (Case #32 of Graecita).

## Profile

Hyale is a cloud nymph who has long, curly white hair, stormy gray eyes and a pair of crystal white fairy wings.

In her minor appearance, she is seen in the nude.

In her suspect appearances, she wears a black cocktail dress, with a long neckline that exposes a part of her chest.

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## Murder details

The guards escort Mia, Ophelia and Maverick to the great hall and tell them to wait while they go alert Theseus about their presence. Once the guards go away, the group sit and wait, looking around the hall to see if there was anything they could do to pass the time. Maverick spells something and he asks the girls if they smell it too. The girls sense the smell too- It was the scent of flames and they decide to follow it. The scent leads them to a door which had black smoke coming out of it and feeling concerned, they open the door. Luckily, the only fire they found was in the fireplace which was filled with lots of coal, causing a high amount of smoke coming out of it and all the windows have been closed. They open the windows to see more clearly and they find an unconscious woman with her hand handcuffed to a console table. Taking a closer look at the woman, Mia and Ophelia were able to recognize her as Hyale, a reporter from Mount Olympus who Mia and Zachary had crossed paths with again back at Spain.

## Killer and motives

Ultimately, Hyale’s killer turned out to be ”Pirithous”.

When Ophelia and Mia came to arrest “Pirithous”, he started clapping and told them that he’s impressed and they’ve really lived up to his mistress’s words. Confused, Ophelia asked what he meant and how he knows about them and “Pirithous” responds by removing his contact lenses, showing his heterochromatic eyes. He then reveals that he is not “Pirithous” but simply a descendant of his, and his real name is Sidney Fairclough. The duo instantly recognize the name- It was the name of the man who acted as Brandi Irwin’s accomplice in Bellanca’s kidnapping. Right then, Ophelia asks him why he killed Hyale and what was the purpose of kidnapping Persephone and Sidney starts giving an explanation. He tells them that his motive for abducting Persephone is clear- She is a fertility goddess and his mistress wanted to use her as a catalyst to take over the world, and he gives them a history lessons on how fertility goddesses helped many gods gain power. He tells them that he never wanted to marry her and all he wanted to do was absorb her life source and give it over to his mistress. Sidney then explains Hyale’s role in all of this, revealing that she was keeping tabs on the operation and knew about Minthe’s death before everyone and she was the one who gave him the idea to have Cerus released to the open. He tells them that when she saw them in Demeter’s realm, she immediately informed him and he instructed her to spread the news about Persephone’s disappearance to cause a panic. He reveals that Rolland was also in on this whole thing and he was the one who tipped him about them getting information from Circe and when he learned about this, Sidney told Hyale to locate Cerus and give a dramatic report on where he is, hoping the team would pay attention to that instead, giving him time to figure out a way to kill Theseus and take Persephone from him. However, what he did not to know was that the team befriended Pegasus so only two of them went to capture Cerus and they ended up wasting no time with sailing to Athens. Sidney then reveals the reason he killed Hyale was because she was having second thoughts about the operation and feared she’d eventually betray him. So he took her to the salon for sex and Hyale consented to getting handcuffed to the table. However instead of going down on her, Sidney started shutting down all the windows and then went to the fireplace, filling it up with coal causing a high amount of smoke to form. He then left the room and shut the door, leaving her to scream until the smoke caused her to suffocate and die. After hearing motive, Ophelia and Mia were about to go to Theseus and warn him about Sidney planning to kill him, but two guards suddenly restrained them. The sun then goes down and sunset light passes through the window, hitting a hand of one of the guards and underneath life his hand was nothing but bones. Ophelia notices this and she starts screaming but Sidney hushes her and assures her everything will be fine. He then addresses the guards to throw them into the dungeon before turning to Mia and smirks as he tells her that his mistress will be thrilled to see her.

## Case appearances

* Natural Causes (Case #32 of Graecita).
* The Dead Air of Murder (Case #33 of Graecita).
* Saddle Up! (Case #34 of Graecita).
* See In Scarlet (Case #35 of Graecita).
* Unbreathe Me (Case #36 of Graecita).

## Trivia

* Hyale’s appearance was inspired by Storm (portrayed by Halle Berry), a character from the popular superhero film series known as *X-Men*.

## Gallery

Sidney Fairclough, Hyale's boyfriend and killer.