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“Don’t scoff, oh ye who has no better idea”
He held his hands up in surrender “Fine Call me if she starts to eat you Maybe I can stop her”
Froht sound odd, but since Simi was a Charonte demon with a ferocious appetite, it was a possibility “I think I’ll be all right Just don’t let Cherise find out she has two unexpected house guests and that her baby boy isn’t her baby boy”
Caleb visibly cringed “On second thought, I’d rather go with you and take er Cherise at least knows you We can’t risk her running into the other two on her own”
“Fine, but the next ti puts you on its , Kody flashed herself back to her house
Her se recurve bow on her wall, over her bed It was so hard to be with Simi when Kody kneould one day beco toward, and one way or another, Kody had to derail it
And while Siuess the truth of who and what she really was
And why she was here
Most of all, Simi had yet to realize that they were related Every ti her To crawl into Simi’s lap like she used to do when she was little and have Si bad happen to her That she was the Sione
And there was much more at stake than just Kody and her fa out with the power she’d been taught as a toddler Like her uncle, she had the ability to summon any Charonte, from any realm She could even control them, but she wasn’t into that anyaway anyone’s free will Not for any reason
Within a few seconds, Sis Her black and red hair was rus expanded
“Were you napping?”
Simi shook herself and rose to tower over Kody “No, silly seht here, but in Si dream sheep in my sleep” Sis “Where’s Akri-Nick?”
Kody bit her lip “We have a bit of a probleain? No, Akra-Kody Say it ain’t so”
“It ain’t so”
Simi formed a small O with her lips as she considered the alternatives “You lose hiots to be careful with thee things Akri once accidentally wandered off and left the Siot to tell the Siood, but off hed “I didn’t lose him like that, Simi”
“Oh Then what’d you do?”
“I left hi he was sucked into another dimension and into the future, and someone else is now here, in his body Can you time travel?”
Simi sucked her breath in sharply “Akra-Kody, that’s a bad bad idea”
“But can you do it?”
“The Sis, and as Akri say, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should But in this case … not without Akri, and he won’t never let the Siive the Sihed as she realized she’d have to go this alone Not like that was any different than what her existence had been, but still …
She’d hoped to have some form of backup when she went into the unknown “Then I’ll have to do it o and do that?”
“I have no choice, Simi It has to be done Nick can’t stay unprotected”
“How you find hieneral idea where he is Kind of”
Simi quirked an eyebrow at that “What if he moves? Boys tend to do that A lot They not real stationary creatures, especially when they young and virile”
Kody laughed in spite of her fear Simi had a valid point “Without his powers … I don’t know if anyone can find hi to use to pinpoint hi her lips, Sio ask Menyara? She always knohere Akri-Nick is”
Honestly? Because Menyara was the one being who had the powers to see through Kody’s guise To recognize her Even though Kody was shielded, Menyara was also the Egyptian goddess Ma’at And as such, her poere infinite
Since the day she had been sent to stop Nick, Kody had been very careful to fly below Mennie’s radar To never look her in the eye for fear that her great-aunt would see Kody’s mother in her Sense the bloodline they shared
But as she heard the storathered, she knew Siht They didn’t have time to play around and avoid uncoreat-aunt and face the past
Her vision swaathered in her throat to choke her
“Is Akra-Kody okay?”
No She hadn’t been fine in a long, long time But she didn’t want to share that Not even with Simi Thanks to the Malachai, she was alone in this world, and stronger than any being should ever have to be
“I’ested” As she started to flash away, Simi took her hand and squeezed it so that she could teleport with Kody As much as she wanted Simi with her, she knew better What she’d need to say to Menyara, Simi couldn’t overhear If the demon ever learned who and what Nekoda really was, it could cause unbelievable dae to the time sequence
Kody patted her hand “I need to do this alone, Si, Siht, Si up the wall Simi’s toes almost reached the bow Kody had received fro a s the same way It had driven her parents to distraction