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"We need to talk"

"I would love that," he said

As a sign of goodwill, Callista uns were returned She invited the, "Can I expect a military raid?"

He sht tomorrow"

"Understood" Callista was so back, he’d activated its GPS signal and sent a e to local authorities to track him if he didn’t check in by a certain tiion, but it in no way reserounds extending in all directions Guards stood outside its fence, though they didn’t display any guns Borderlands ht have been able to sneak weapons behind closed doors, but security guards in the open could hardly flaunt guns when regular Gemman patrols continually passed by

Mae re until they were escorted into a luxurious sitting room decorated in an Old World Spanish style Left alone, Justin reached for a pitcher of water and a cup sitting out on an ornate wooden table

"You think that’s safe to drink?" asked Mae

"We’re fine I’ve got Internal Security tracking us now" He poured the water

"You should’ve done that the instant we stepped off the plane"

"Yeah, well, I didn’t think we’d traveled back in time to some barbarian civilization This place has been Geive up on their old ways I still see it in the Nordics, and it’s been almost a century"

The door opened, and Mae ju herself for a threat What actually cairl, probably only a year or so shy of hitting puberty Extremely pretty, she possessed Callista’s exquisite features and carried a tray containing bandages and a dark glass bottle

"Mythe tray on a s up souely remembered a name "Persia?"

She flushed with pleasure "Yes" To Mae, Persia said, "Do you need help?"

Mae glanced at the tray, face cold "No I’ll do it ave a small nod of compliance and moved toward the door "Thank you," said Justin, not entirely sure how to interact with this serious-eyed woain and disappeared

Mae picked up the bottle Persia had left, uncapped it, and sniffed See and wrapping the cuts on her arms with military efficiency When she finished the ones she could reach, she turned around and peeled off her tank top, glancing at Justin over her shoulder "Will you help h he was char she’d done His efforts were clued when he applied the antiseptic to the cuts caused by the barbed wire For her part, she didn’t even flinch

"Are you going to finally tell me about Callista?" Mae asked

"She’s the one who used to ith Golden Arrow" He paused to tape down soh Or, well…just oddess, drawing mostly from Artemis and Hecate, the last I knew It’s not that out there, since the goddesses have soether a lot, and soin, --Arte for her" That iances She’d left her Celtic oddess for this Greek one and pooled resources with Callista

He finished his first aid handiwork Mae donned her tank top and overshirt again before turning to face hi of ions Deities are all-enco"

He didn’t quite kno else to articulate it, and she obviously didn’t follow Geious history had very two-dioddesses

"You seeht? Yeah, that was definitely a surprise" Bringing it up made him think of the elephant in the roo: the part where she’d gone on a superhu it for noas fine with him, because he didn’t really knohat to say either

She shook her head "I roup isn’t licensed, and there’s no way they fall under the law for acceptable religious practices Even the secular practices don’t You’re going to report this, right?"

He shifted uncomfortably "We’ll see"