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Adidiron laughed aloud “Uh, no At full strength, it would have been like throwing a grenade into a gas plant As a descendant of Apollymi, the Malachai would have absorbed her powers and Rezar’s out of it But because his poere bound to the point he was human…”

“It allowed them to pull him apart,” she finished for him

“Exactly”

She really wanted to beat herself for the stupidity of her actions It’d see him wouldn’t be able to use his powers to locate hi himself or others

But in the end, it’d been the worst solution

Let it go It was useless to continue reliving the event and beating herself up over it There was no way to change what had already been done She needed her full attention on finding another solution One that ht actually work

“How do I locate the stone?” she asked the, she patted Adidiron’s cheek “You really don’t believe inhed bitterly “Can I ask one favor?”

“Feel free to ask, but the answer ht There were times when they really made her want to throw her hands up and cower in a corner “Can you get Simi into this dimension to help us?”

“Simi? The Charonte?” He scowled “Why?”

“Because if the stone belonged to Apollymi, my little horned cousin will know it and she’ll be able to sniff it out like a blood-de Simi loved ed a look she couldn’t quite discern

“We will try,” Suriyel said after a pause “But Siree to do it We can’t cross dihts us”

That was a major understate she didn’t want to do

Well, except for Simi’s husband For some reason, he’d always hadher father had told her had both irritated and a, and that made her miss her aunt and uncle all the more

Please let Simi come here Simi would make this task much easier At least for Kody For the ones sent to ask Siht …

“Word of advice,” Kody said to the men “If Simi breaks out her barbecue sauce, run”

Suriyel snorted “Thanks”

“Any time, sport” Kody bit her lip as she scanned the faces of her coconspirators By going against Sraosha and saving her froainst their brethren If she failed, they would pay a steep price for it

Adidiron gently took her ar for both of you Every time you use your powers outside of this shelter, they will know it We do have several spies a his army, but don’t count on theain”

“I understand” She was used to being on her own

In both lifetimes

Suriyel inclined his head to her “Keep Nick alive”

“I’ll do my best, but we have only two days to finish this before the ušuallu unites and they eneral”

“Yeah, we know Thorn is already gathering his forces here”

Kody shivered “Is Cadegan with hian He was once Thorn’s right hand At least in my world”

One by one, they all shook their heads “We don’t know that nah it didn’t happen often, there were a nus she knew that they didn’t Mostly ones who didn’t interact with the human world any more than they had to

And that definitely described the two of theether had been an invincible team Honestly, she was ht here She and Nick had enough against them already

“Good luck with Simi,” she breathed to them, then teleported back to Acheron’s house

Kody had barely appeared in his office before she saw Acheron staring at an old photo with a longing in his eyes that was heart-wrenching She knew that aching loss firsthand and it reeked

The wo two children Kody assumed to be the Simi and Ash Nick had spoken about But the man in that photo was definitely not the saod Katra had hter and grandchildren, though, was every bit as potent

“Acheron?”

Clearing his throat, he turned slightly toward her and put the photo out of sight “Did you learn anything helpful?”

“Yes and no It’s as I suspected My boss wants Nick dead”

Acheron snorted “Having spent time with him, I can well understand his motivation”

Kody tsked at hius Stone Have you ever heard of it?”

He put his hands in his jacket pocket “Vaguely It’s a legend about the first war of the gods and one of the like that Honestly, I never paid those stories much attention”