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Soled in the back of my mind, but before I could concentrate fully on it, she pushed the door open "Adonis! What did I say about feeding the dog peanut butter?"

Adonis, Persephone’s boyfriend--husband?--rose froo?" I knelt down, and the black-and-white dog Henry had given me let out a barkall over hie and juer hold back the floodgates

Persephone stepped around ive me all the nasty looks she wanted; she’d abandoned her faet to knowof tea waiting for me on the tiny kitchen table She sat in the chair opposite ainst the wall and shuffling his feet While I sipped

Several minutes passed, and I couldn’t take the silence any to happen?" I said, ed "They’ve been at ith the Titans before"

"But it’s different this time They don’t have Calliope, and Henry--"

"What about Henry? What’s wrong with hi that had happened since she’d left the palace after the first battle Calliope’s plot to kidnap me, the nine months I’d spent as her prisoner, Milo, my connection with Cronus, what I’d promised him and what he’d proht for survival, his sacrifice to keep Milo and est battle in history doo of their strongest fighters with no real hope of success" I cuddled Pogo, and he licked the crook of ainst the wooden table, her expression distant "And you’re going to spend the entire ti I could possibly do is distract Cronus and Calliope, and you heard Mo like hell to keep every good thing I had in my life," said Persephone "Not all of us had that chance The relationship you have with Mother, with Henry--you twohere like a luet them back"

"You think I want to sit here? If there was so it, but I can’t--"

"Like hell you can’t" She narrowed her eyes "Think, Kate Just stop and think You’re the girl who trekked across half the Underworld to reach ht knohere to find Cronus, and you’re giving up right now? I don’t think so"

Were she and Ja to make ain, but she held up her hand

"There’s always a way around a probleure it out before the battle begins So you tellyou’ve seen, are you going to sit there, or are you going to fight?"

I took a deep breath Persephone was right; there was always a solution There was always a way to fix so, even if it was hard Even if it was nearly iive it a chance

Henry’s voice Henry’s words He believed inin ain The layout of the palace Nicholas Persephone

My eyes flew open, and the pieces of the puzzle snapped into place "I knohat to do"