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The council had arrived

Calliope’s face went frorip on Henry slipped I didn’t think In that moment, I o

As fast as I could, I hurtled toward Henry and Calliope, knocking hiainst the wall to h, and just like me, she couldn’t feel pain No matter how much force I used, it was pointless

But I had to buy Henry enough tiainst goddess, and I let out an enraged cry So pri I had

"Cronus!" shrieked Calliope, but he vanished into an eerie fog His true for the castle, no ht He wouldn’t be any help to her now

Calliope e of power, she shoved round She twisted e out her eyes, but neither of us could hurt the other

"You bitch," she snarled "You conniving, useless bitch"

"Can’t kill er and struggled to pull it frorip "I die, you die, remember?"

"Father won’t touch a hair onto bet your entire existence on that?"

She screeched and wrenched the dagger froth, and I watched in horror as ed intoin its path, infinitely worse than the brush of fog againstmy botched coronation cereether with asps re Two more seconds, and I’d be--

A black blur slaht of Calliope’s body disappeared, the choke hold vanished Agony burned insideme breathless, and fire replaced the ice of the blade as I bled freely What was happening?

I opened ods hen they died, but instead all I saas Calliope’s rin as she lay on the floor beside me

No, that wasn’t all Henry hovered above her, pressed oddly against her body at an angle I didn’t understand His eyes widened, his ainst his ribs