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"I don’t know I just couldn’t sleep and I wanted to be close to you"

"Het so up the phone I loved everything about hi that the ed hied me, as I stooped to pick up the clothes that had scattered fro away froed into own I focused very hard on trying to re it, but my memories of it were murky and I knew that was how the Moirae wanted it

The bloodstone was powerful, so they didn’t want me to be able to harness that power Yet so suspicion that ends, was tied to my bloodstone in some way I could just feel it

I stared at the pile of dripping glass heaped in the ain

What a mess I so wished that it was already cleaned up I needed to make a research trip to the library and I didn’t want to waste hours cleaning up earthquake debris

Within the breadth of one second, before I had barely even finished one The wetness that had saturated asped

How had I done that? I glanced around lass in my wastebasket next to my desk What the heck? I had briefly pictured my floor as the clean area that it had been- and all of a sudden, it becaifts They were co back toht and my clothes neatly folded within its drawers It instantly became so It didn’t happen in front of me in a blur of motion, it was justthere One h it had always been that way I sed What else could I do that I hadn’t reht

I wished that the Moirae had allowed my memories to come fully back to oddess, but nothing very cohesive or concrete Just brief flashes Gavin as Cadmus his voice, his smile It was the same His touch on s I could remember scant flashes of life on Olyardless, I needed to put that out of my mind and focus on the present I needed to learn ends Harrabbed so short in front of the mirror in awe My face had indeed transfor you would be able to put your finger on It was otten thinner andthe baby fat that I had still been carrying in my cheeks My vivid eyes re rabbed my car keys

I was at the library 10 h the hushed halls, I felt as though I was being watched It was unnerving because every time I turned around, there was no one there No one see I passed a few racks of books that had been disturbed, but library aides were busily re-shelving thee

I passed the coffee bar, inhaling the rich scent of roasted fresh coffee beans before I entered the ant and familiar with its dark wood panels and cozy la here since I was a kid As I turned the corner, though, a hushed ue whispers I whirled around, but there was no one there

And no one around h they could hear it I continued on to a tiny reading nook, trying to ignore the voices

Dropping my stuff into a chair, I punched "Harmonia’s Necklace" into the nearest resource computer A plethora of book choices popped up and I scribbled the y and then settled h the stories Some said that no descriptions of the necklace were available, while others said that it was a two-headed serpent And while I couldn’t conclusively rule that out, it didn’t feel right I didn’t think it had been a snake

I kept reading, filing each bit of infor It was all stuff that I already knew My step-father had created a necklace to gain revenge on ave me the necklace, not my mother So not fair I was supposed to be cursed for all of eternity because of h, was the fact that Zeus had contributed his own blood in order to make my necklace so powerful The idea of hoerful it really as alarered my bloodstone With each breath I took, I was more and more convinced that somehow, the bloodstones were Hared to use the one stone from my necklace to create more necklaces, one for each Keeper and one for each of the Fates Hephaestus could have done that for the which ht be why they kept him chained to their door

And realization fell on me like a ton of bricks Of course They kept Hephaestus near because they needed him My necklace had been tied to me, which must have been the reason that they had chosen me to be a Keeper They needed its power, but in order for them to access it, I still needed to have possession of it in some form They needed me

I reht after I had lost my bloodstone The bloodstones were made from one stone One When one is lost, we all suffer…Our power as a whole should not be diminished because of the carelessness of one, should it?

Oh od She admitted that the stones came from one stone Their poas diminished because I had lostto hyperventilate

I sat hunched over trying to breathe to oddess I had been cast into dooiven a cursed necklace made from Zeus’ blood Life was not fair

As I attelimpse of movement from in front ofdirectly fro in front ofone step in front of ain, no one see and screa I wasn’t afraid I could tell that she wasn’t here to har her