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"Kate, you o," said Walter, and I left the throne roo and inexperienced, but that didn’t make me an idiot And if they wouldn’t fix it, then I would
Shadows danced on the walls of Milo’s nursery as it materialized around me, and Cronus hovered over his cradle He looked paler than usual, but his eyes swirled with fog, and a faint aura of power surrounded hi for you" He set a hand on my lower back, and I recoiled
"You’re ainto the cradle for my son "Do you realize how many people you’ve just--"
As always, my hand met empty air, but this time it was different I squinted into the mess of blankets, and I froze Milo wasn’t there
"What did you do to him?" I said, and estured behindchair that hadn’t been there the day before, and she cradled Milo
"She has barely put him down since you last left," said Cronus
I hurried over to her, and Ava glanced up For one horrible ht through me "It won’t work," she said to Cronus "I don’t care how many times you try it Kate isn’t here, and even if she was, you wouldn’t be able to see her"
Still in denial then For now, it didn’t matter; I watched Milo happily suck away on the tip of her pinkie, and ht at er
"Hi, baby," I whispered, kneeling beside Ava The blade of her rocker sliced through ht, his cheeks pink, and he waved his little hands at me with more enthusiasm than before He looked like a healthy ten-day-old baby Whatever Ava was giving hi
"Why does he look so much healthier?" I said to Cronus, and he repeated the question
Ava, whofor ed "Everyone knows that newborns need to be held, and not by a walking void of eht now, she was the only one who could give that to him I bit the inside of my cheek and focused on Milo He was so beautiful that it hurt to look at him, but I couldn’t tear myself away
"Why did you attack those people?" I said to Cronus
"For the same reason I attacked Athens," he said "To teach the council a lesson"
"And what lesson was that supposed to be?" I snapped "The ree to your truce"
"We both know that will not happen," said Cronus, and in the rocker, Ava’s brow furroith confusion
"Stop it," she said, her grip on Milo tightening "She isn’t here"