Hestia dies in Apollo's place under a black-gold spell, and the one hiding the black laurel leaf in her sleeve is Leto, his own mother. Twenty-one years later the Moirai draw the thread binding Apollo to Daphne — the forest nymph erased from his memory. He refuses to marry at a thread's command, so Zeus strips the sun crown: ninety days as a mortal. If Daphne does not choose him herself, his light goes out for good.