Zoe of Phrygia

**Family** | King Midas (father)

Demeter (mother)

**Zoe of Phrygia** was the victim in Into The Rabbit Hole (Case #8 of Graecita).

## Profile

Zoe is the 12-year-old princess of Phrygia. She has long blonde hair with a large blue bow and blue eyes. She dons a white collared blue dress and is seen carrying a stuffed white rabbit. It is known that Alice eats mushrooms.

## Murder details

As the crew was hiking, their way was suddenly blocked by a herd of animals running from the right and out of concern, Ophelia asked what they are running from where Natalie told her that there must be hunters around there and there may have been a death at the forest. The crew thought about that and wondered if the “hunters” may be “huntresses” and Artemis may be around and so to check, Mia and Ophelia headed to the opposite direction of the animals to see what’s going on. In no time, the girls saw what the animals were running from and it wasn’t hunters but the decapitated body of a young girl next to a rabbit hole. Later in the murder investigation they learn that the girl is called, Zoe of Phrygia.

## Killer and motives

After collecting enough evidence, Ophelia and Mia went to confront the victim’s brother, Lityerses for the murder.

Lityerses acted disgusted by Ophelia and Mia’s accusations as he would never hurt his own flesh and blood no matter how envious he felt, but after being put on pressure, he cracked up, claiming the murder an accident. Ophelia asked him how could he possibly decapitate his sister by “accident”, where Lityerses revealed that she wasn’t the target. Lityerses explained that his father brought no gift to honor Dionysus for the picnic and so when spotted a large white hare, he told him to hunt it believing that Dionysus would be honored to he offered such a beautiful beast. Lityerses did what his father told him and went to chase the hare but found difficulty in killing it. What Lityerses didn’t know is that his sister didn’t stay and the picnic and went to the forest and was playing with the same hare he was hunting. Lityerses then saw the hare near a rabbit hole and slowly approached it and swung his hoe to kill it. But Zoe was watching Lityerses and wanting to save the hare, she stood in front of her brother hoping that she’d stop him from swinging his tool but instead Lityerses ended up hitting her with his gardening tool, accidentally chopping off her dead. When Lityerses realized what he had done, he freaked out and escaped the scene and not wanting anyone to know what he did, he threw his hoe into a field of marigolds hoping no one would find it and trace it to him. Ophelia and Mia felt pity for Lityerses as he didn’t mean to kill his sister, but regardless they took him to his father for judgement. Lityerses started crying, begging his father to forgive him and at first it seemed like Midas was actually going to pardon him but instead he took off his glove and smacked his son and with a single touch, Lityerses turned to gold. After Lityerses was frozen, Midas decided to make the golden statue his gift for Dionysus.

## Case appearances

* Into The Rabbit Hole (Case #8 of Graecita).

## Gallery

King Midas, Zoe’s fatherDemeter, Zoe’s motherLityersesGraecita.jpegLityerses of Phrygia, Zoe’s brother and killer