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Unlike the council, Cronus and Calliope weren’t partners They were barely allies In Calliope’s desperation to escape fro in the universe who treated her even worse than he had And judging by the look on her face, she was finally beginning to realize it

Cronus was quiet for a long moment, and darkness filled the hallway until I couldn’t see an inch in front of "

"There is no other explanation," said Calliope "The battles we have fought--they are always two steps ahead of us, circu my traps and plans, and they could not possibly know these things if you were not telling Kate our every h, which lanced into the darkness where Ava was standing

Not possible

"Silence," said Cronus, and he dropped ht my wrist "I will hear no more of this If there has been any leak, it is not from me Therefore I can only assuhter And I do not suffer treason"

He yanked ertips touched another--Ja in that direction

"I am finished with this pointless debate You have what you want, and ain with Kate is fulfilled However, because I cannot ensure her safety, I cannot allow her to stay"

At last Cronus let go of uh, not when Henry and Milo were in danger I couldn’t abandon theain

The air crackled with a different kind of power, but the darkness around us muted it, and Calliope let out a frustrated cry "You can’t do this to --"

"Then tell , why do you care?"

Calliope blustered, and Jaers would fall off If I had any chance of getting hio now I couldn’t be responsible for anything happening to him, but I couldn’t leave either

And then, in the eI could do and he knew it If I stayed, Calliope would kill me Like our picnic in the woods when she’d revealed herself to be the traitor, she was too e clearly She’d known then that she would out herself as a murderer to the entire council, and she hadn’t cared I had no guarantee she wouldn’t call Cronus’s bluff now