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No one touched the two thrones One was supposed to be mine, but the ceremony hadn’t f inished, and even if it had, I didn’t want to be up there without Henry I wasn’t ready to rule alone--I wasn’t even sure I was ready to rule by his side With hione, I didn’t want to think about what that would do to the natural order of things around the Underworld Were souls stuck in limbo until Henry returned? What if he never ca to think like that There had to be a way for this to work out--so crept over e She wanted Henry--and she wanted me dead

That wasn’t an option yet Even if I uarantee it would end things Cronus was ine, and from my vision it was clear that no matter how in control Calliope pretended to be, she wasn’t She wasn’t the one as going to decide when this was over

"What do we do now?"

My voice echoed in the dead silence of the throne room

It’d been nearly ten er take sitting there while Henry and er

"What do you mean?" said Ella, who shared a wide arether as if it were thein the world, and I en-vied them They still had each other

"I mean, hoe help them?" I said "If Moot captured, too

"What are we supposed to do?"

Ella and Theo exchanged looks, and next to the them, not when Cronus and Calliope have the we can do" I looked around the circle for support, but no one met my eye Not even James "We can’t leave the else would be suicide," said Dylan with a sneer "While you were getting your beauty sleep, the rest of us went over every feasible plan With Diana and Sof ia, our options were limited Without them, we have no choice but to wait until Calliope makes her next move

We can’t face her head-on, not if you want there to be any of us left to f ight Cronus when he f inds a way to escape" When, not if "There has to be so we can do"

"They knew that this was a possibility," said Irene "They knew our powers are limited in this realm, and they took that chance and left us anyway"