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"Impossible You’re perfect for me Besides, wait till you meet their wives Or have you already heard stories?"

She shook her head "New reports of your most recent exploits haven’t yet co to know they’d never realized they were being spied on "Well, Sabin and Strider are consorts to bloodthirsty Harpies Lucien is engaged to Anarchy All three fe weapons out of my room, but as they would say, they’re simply amazeballs--and so are you"

A smile--s you’d like to purchase before I take you out of the city? Anything at all I plan to get you soet shoes, purses, jewelry, whatever you’d like" If he had to buy her affections, he would He didn’t care how pathetic that ood"

The vibrations in his wedding ring intensified significantly, startling hiht In the center, as if the band were a h a crowd

Kane glanced up--and spotted Red, shoving his way through the crowd, closing in on hi?" Tink asked

"Yeah We’ve picked up a tail" He trashed his coffee, did the sarouched "I wasn’t done with that"

"Sorry Don’t want you to burn yourself" He launched forward, barreling past onco Tink with hier

"Who’s the tail?"

"One of William’s kids" No Scratch that All of William’s kids were probably here Those four were like ants: never alone

"What are they, anyway?"

"Trouble" And they weren’t co near Tink He would kill them first

Yeah It was time to kill, he decided He’d warned the Rainbow Rejects about ould happen if they ca had been a courtesy to William His last courtesy The boys hadn’t listened Now, Kane would follow through

"I’ to hide you in one of the shops, okay? I need to have a chat with the boys, and I don’t want you to--"

"Kane!" Tink vanished

No, not Tink Kane No longer was he racing down the sideith his wo wafting all around hiht, searching for Tink

He clawed through the , but there was no longer a reflection Panic set in Where was he? What had happened? Not s had the power to flash another without contact Only Greek and Titan royalty, and--

The Moirai, he realized with sickening dread They’d used their powers to transport him from New York to their home in the lower level of the skies

He sped down the hall He’d been here before, knew the way, and didn’t need to look to know the walls were comprised of thousands upon thousands of braided threads Those threads vibrated, co scenes from his life--past, present, and maybe even future--but he didn’t allow himself to stop and study

He was careful to breathe as little as possible The air was laced with so to keep hiht the Moirai operated that way, that they weren’t really controllers of fate, but rather , until their victi wherever they led

Not er

He reached the end of the hall and entered the weaving roos sat on wooden stools, each fe over her shoulders

Klotho had spotted hands and spun the threads

Lachesis had gnarled fingers and wove those threads together

Atropos had pupil-less eyes and snipped the ends of the locks

"Send me back Now" The last time he was here, he’d shown the utaze averted This tiaze direct The outco turn" Klotho cackled

"Such a bad wrong turn," Lachesis reiterated

"Bad turns lead to bad ends," Atropos said without any inflection "You should have married the other one Or two"

No No, he wouldn’t believe it Tink belonged to hied to her He wanted no one else--would have no one else

"There’s still tie directions," Klotho added

"Oh, yes, there’s still time," Lachesis reiterated

"That’s the only way you’ll survive the pain," Atropos said

Kane ca the females into submission "Send Me Back"