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Henry pressed his lips to the baby’s forehead for a long ood," he ht at me "Your mother and I love you"
I froze Did he know? Was it a coincidence? Another trick of Cronus’s?
And I love you Though his lips hadn’t h my mind, and I held my breath Just like Milo, he kneas there Ava hadn’t lied; she hadn’t taken that love away fro I pushed the words toward him, and he turned away to stare into Milo’s cradle And I hope you can fight what Ava’syou go again
It ination, but I could’ve sworn he sain My thoughts were fir now Just stay with me Don’t let Calliope convince you that you’re so will be okay I’ll lance my way, Henry walked toward the nursery door But as he h mine, and this time I kneas no accident So will I
When I returned to Oly forpoints, with dark ses under their eyes and pale skin that seehtly over their faces
"Kate," said Walter Even he looked spent "Do you have news?"
Now they wanted to hear what I had to say? I bit back a sharp reply They’d gone through enough that evening without having to deal with my inflated sense of injustice, as well "Calliope really is torturing Nicholas to keep Ava in line She has a room full of weapons I think he made--some of theger, and enough of theet close enough, maybe there’s a chance we could use them and--"
Walter raised a weary hand, and for once I fell silent "If we are fortunate enough to get that far past Cronus’s defenses, it means ill have already won" The note of inevitability he’d always used whenever he spoke of winning the war had disappeared
"What happened during the battle today?" I said, and half a dozen of them looked away
"Cronus was morefocused than usual," said hting harder because of me," I said, and across the circle, Dylan scoffed
"Always because of you, isn’t it? Couldn’t possibly be because he’s getting stronger the closer we get to the winter solstice, could it?"
"Maybe," I allowed "But I don’t think it’s a coincidence this happened the day after he found out I’ve been lying to hi else
"How is Henry?" said Sofia "Did you see him?"