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"Good tuna fish sandwiches; he&039;s the tallest awking at Ash

Ash shook his head at what had to be Pam&039;s most commonly uttered phrase since she&039;d walked into the house with him She&039;d said it four times already

"Pam," Kim chided as she set the pizza on the coffee table "You&039;re going to make him self-conscious"

Pam set the beer next to the boxes "Well it&039;s not like he doesn&039;t know I mean at five nine, I kno tall I aawk It&039;s not every day we meet a ht Tory?" Pam stood up on her tiptoes next to Ash "Kim, you&039;re tiny and barely crack five feet You have no idea what it&039;s like to be tall in a world of average height hed before he scooped her up in his arrief!" she said as he set her down "I&039;ve never had aI&039;m in heaven Marry gage than even Sanored the journals She pushed the pizza boxes aside on her coffee table, then set the over the last year"

Ash knelt down and started flipping pages

Tory leaned over his shoulder as she reviehat he was looking at "See, ments A few friezes and some bottles"

Ash paused as he found one familiar piece that made his breath catchit was Ryssa&039;s hair coo His heart clenched as he ran his hand over the photograph, re how beautiful she&039;d been with them in her blond hair

"It&039;s incredibly well preserved, isn&039;t it?" Tory said, unaware of how much this one piece meant to him "The pearls are even still set where they&039;d been It looks like so you could buy today The workmanship on it&039;s incredible"

"Yeah" He forced hie to see more pottery before he betrayed himself with misty eyes

Then he found it

"Where&039;s this piece?"

Tory frowned at the deep, fir over his shoulder, she saw an ornate gold dagger that Bruce had excavated "That one is still being tested in the lab, why?"

"We need it"

Wow, his tone wasfor war "Is it that valuable?"

Ash hesitated Not from her standpoint, but since it was a weapon that could kill anything that breathed it was extremely valuable to hi to possess it "Yes"

Pam rolled her eyes "I don&039;t understand you people and your old stuff"

Kim patted her shoulder "It&039;s okay, sweetie We don&039;t understand you and your BeGoth doll obsession either" She looked at Tory "You should have been with us on our Leda Swanson quest She dragged me to three states until we finally found the doll in a boutique in Alabah the book, but he couldn&039;t find anything other than the Atlantean dagger that could be iiven that, ould a hunificance

And no nonhuman would have made this kind of mess and left it They&039;d have simply attacked and tortured Tory until she told the But what else could they want?

More iet it? It was one thing to break into a house Would they kill for it as well?

Ash stood up "I&039;s out I&039;ll be back"

Tory nodded "We&039;ll save you some pizza"

Ash didn&039;t comment as he left the house and used his powers to leave New Orleans and venture to Savitar&039;s island where the sun literally never set Magical in nature, the island constantly moved around the world as Savitar searched out the "perfect" wave

As expected, Savitar was lying on his back on a surfboard out in the water, staring up at the clear bright sky as the waves rocked him

Unlike the omniscient Chthonian, Ash wasn&039;t a water baby He hated surfing and lying under the sun But he also knew that when in Rome

He popped hihed when he saw hiboard "You look so out of your element"

"I am out of ave hirin "I&039;m never out of et you in shorties and on a board One day I&039;et you to say &039;Rad four- his arhed "Not likely"

Savitar tsked at hi at the sky "I&039;ve heard that before So what brings you here, Gro term that was usually reserved for kids under fifteen Only Savitar could get aith calling hister "There&039;s a wonore the sarcastic co pursued by someone and I don&039;t knoho"

Savitar arched a brow as he floated one heavily tattooed ar"

Those words and his condescending tone set Ash&039;s tearabbed Ash&039;s board and snatched him closer "Like you, I won&039;t tamper with fate"

"Bullshit You tamper with fate all the time"

He shoved Ash&039;s board away from him "But I won&039;t tamper with yours Ever"

Ash cursed as he paddled back to Savitar&039;s side "Have you any idea how frustrating it is to be the final fate of the world and to have no control over your own?"

"Sure you do, little brother Every decision you ht you nothing?"

Savitar was right, but it wasn&039;t that simple Especially not when there was another person&039;s life involved