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“Savitar!” Nick reprimanded

“Don’t take that tone to irlfriend … I learned the hard way not to putfor anyone It’s a debt they seldo the walls around therowled in frustration that he couldn’t have a minute’s peace “Can’t you teleport us soret, he shook his head “I’ what?”

Kody answered Nick’s question “With every god a Chthonian kills, it weakens theo, I had a really bad day”

When he didn’t elaborate, Nick prompted him “And what did you do?”

“I Had A Bad Day” He enunciated each word slowly and with great irritation After a second, he calret The biggest of which being the powers I lost as a result of my tantrum So that For many reasons “Are there any other Chthonians left?”

“Just Zebulon, and he’s even weaker than I ah his hair, Nick took a mental inventory of possible allies

“What about the Charonte?” Kody asked Savitar

“All enslaved”

“Even Simi?”

Savitar winced as if that question sucker-punched hi it immediately “She was at school with me I saw her”

Savitar shook his head “I know Simi and I was there when she was killed I burned her reone”

Then who’d been in his school with him? She’d even answered to Simi’s name That was just weird

“What about Menyara?” Kody asked

“Io of Nick’s hand “Wait … what month and year is this?”

His mom was the one who answered her “April 2002, why?”

Kody let out her own sound of gross frustration as she started pacing “I was hoping we could get to my father, but he would still be imprisoned in the Greek Underworld”

“If he’s alive here,” Nick reer lives, he lives”

Savitar snorted “And the Harbinger is definitely alive, butwho this Harbinger was, Nick sighed as he continued to think through an escape route “What about your mother?” he asked Kody

“Irown right now, and trust me, he won’t help us He’s knee-deep in Daimon drama”

That was a serious and most unexpected kick in his stones “Excuse me? Your brother is with Dai story, Nick”

Okay, he put that in the to-be-pursued-later bank “But maybe he’s not evil I mean, Tabitha and Thorn switched sides It’s possible your brother did, too Right?”

Savitar rubbed his hand down the line of his jaw “Who’s your brother?”

“Urian”

Savitar choked on the naeneral of the Spathi Daimons?”

She nodded

“Yeah, that’s a lost cause He’s evil to the core of his rotten heart I don’t care if you are his sister, he’d still rip your head off and use it for a basketball”

Kody bit her lip “Unless…”

“What?” Nick asked her hopefully

Shaking her head, she paused in her pacing “Phoebe He should beher hand through her hair, Kody groaned in frustration “You’re right It doesn’t I keep thinking everyone is the saone Dai him”

“Or she’s dead,” Savitarfor entry

Bubba’s cell phone rang He pulled it out of his pocket and moved away from them to answer it while they continued to futilely explore the path of lost causes

Kody paused again as she faced Savitar “If Nick brought me over, do you think we could do that to so?”

“Maybe I could su our Sied “You can always try”