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Her voice was tinged with sadness, and I realizedapart It was as if we stood on opposite sides of a widening chasloomy certainty the breach was already too wide for ," Liz added, probably to cheer me up

"He’s not ument with Liz Besides, I was so mixed up about that bloody jackal Anubis, I didn’t knohere to begin

The train slowed I saw the signs for Waterloo Station

"Oh, god," I said "I e"

"Can’t we backtrack?" Liz asked

A roar fro back, I saw a large shape with glittering silver fur loping along the tracks Its foot touched the third rail, and sparks flew; but the baboon god luain on us

"No going back," I said "We’ll have to e"

"That’s half a mile from the station!" Liz protested "What if it catches us?"

I ru and pulled out th, the lion-carved tip blazing with golden light "Then I suppose we’ll have to fight"

Should I describe Waterloo Station as it was before or after we destroyed it? The main concourse was massive It had a polished irder ceiling high enough so that a helicopter could fly about inside comfortably

Rivers of people flowed in and out,as they made their way to various escalators and platfor had rather frightenedfroht fall and crush me The announcers’ voices werein my environfor their trains, reranted, I shouldn’t have watched as a young child, but I was always rather precocious

At any rate,our way toward the nearest exit, when a stairwell behind us exploded

Crowds scattered as Babi cli their briefcases and sprinting for their lives Liz, Eainst the side of the Paperchase kiosk to avoid getting tra in Italian

Babi howled His fur was covered with grian was ripped to shreds on his arlasses were still on his head

He sniffed the air, probably trying to catch my scent Then a dark shadow passed overhead

"Where are you going, Sadie Kane?" Nekhbet shrieked She soared through the ter down on the already panicked crowds "Would you fight by running away? You are not worthy!"

An announcer’s calh the terstoke will arrive on platform three"

"ROOOAR!" Babi swatted a bronze statue of some poor famous bloke and knocked his head clean off A policeman ran forward, armed with a pistol Before I could yell at him to stop, he fired a shot at Babi Liz and Emma both screamed The bullet deflected off Babi’s fur as if it were n The officer fainted dead away

I’d never seen so many people clear out of a ter theerous I couldn’t have these insane gods killing loads of innocent people just because I was in their et stuck or crushed in a stampede

"Sadie, look!" Liz pointed up, and Eirders and perched there with the pigeons She glared down at us and cried to Babi, "Here she is, my dear! Here!"

"I wish she’d shut up," I muttered

"Isis was foolish to choose you!" Nekhbet yelled "I will feed on your entrails!"

"ROOOOAR!" said Babi, in hearty agreehton is delayed," said the announcer "We apologize for the inconvenience"

Babi had seen us now His eyes s of Gramps in his expression The way he furrowed his brow and jutted out his chin--just as Graby players Seeing that expression on the baboon god al to die here I wasn’t going to let these two repulsive gods hurt randparents

Babi lumbered toward us Now that he’d found us, he didn’t seem in any hurry to kill us He lifted his head andout, su into my arm Liz whimpered, "Sadie…?"

The crowds had ht Perhaps they’d fled, or perhaps they were all on their way to Canary Wharf, not realizing the proble to die," I promised ht" She took the staff gingerly as if I’d handed her a rocket launcher, which I suppose it could’ve been with the proper spell

"Liz," I ordered, "watch the baboon"