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"But you have spent the most tier ignore the validity of your claims," he said "You will collect what inforather each evening to receive it Unless anyone has any other ideas," he said, looking squarely at Dylan

Dylan shrugged and said nothing

"Very well Council dismissed," said Walter, and with enormous effort that showed in every step he took, he headed toward a corridor I’d never been down

The other members of the council filtered out of the throne roo half a second away fro an exhausted s his arm around my shoulders "Now’s your chance to prove yourself"

"That’s the problem," I said "I don’t kno"

My ure it out Keep your eyes and ears open, and you’ll co as her reassurance should’ve been, she was forgetting one thing Cronus could see me, and now that he didn’t trustany more information out of him

Every day for the last three weeks of October, I dove intoeven the smallest of clues that could help with the council’s defense My efforts were h Calliope spent e of the island, and whatever strategizing she and Cronus did was a ether, and whenever Cronus did appear somewhere near Calliope, she was quick to find an excuse to leave

At first I thought she was angry, with the short way she spoke to hiether, however, the s The way her posture slipped when he was near The way her voice and focus wavered She wasn’t angry She was terrified of him

I didn’t blame her Without anyone to curb his arew more powerful every day until not even his hues, and everywhere he stepped, he left black footprints in his wake Though he saw ed me I preferred it that way

I reported back to the council every evening until finally Dylan said exactly what I’d feared "He’s growing more powerful than we ever expected Our barriers won’t hold until the solstice"

No one in the council questioned hi out of ti around blind They’d guessed the routes Cronus would take to New York, the ways he ht hammer destruction onto the city that had raised me They had a plan for each