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"Central Park," I said "That hat it looked like to o on su her arm in mine
"Mine would be Paris, I bet I could spend a et bored"
We both waited for Jairl in the distance "This is her Eden Because we’re immortal, the Underworld adapts to the closest oes, this is what she’ll see, and as soon as we get close enough to so back and forth, her face tilted toward the sun and a s on her lips She looked happy
The kind of happy I wished I could be "She’s alone? Are they all alone?"
Jaestured for us to follow "Didn’t Henry--" He stopped and grimaced, and I bit back a retort No, Henry hadn’t f illedSome people are reunited with loved ones, others aren’t Sometimes people spend half their time alone and half of it with loved ones There’s no hard and fast set of rules The person has the kind of afterlife they expect, or at least the one they think they deserve" Oh That And if there were any questions or discrepan-cies, that here Henry and I came in "He explained that part," I said "Sorip on htened, and I squeezed back
That didn’t sound like heaven to et your expectations," said Jathe color of cotton candy "Everyone’s different Soion plays a part, sometimes it doesn’t Henry will explain all of this to you"
Only if we all returned in one piece
I knehat happened toh to convince Calliope to help subdue Cronus before he escaped--ould happen to me now that I was immortal? I would fade, I knew that much, but what did that mean? I’d always believed in some sort of afterlife even before I’d met Henry and discovered the truth That belief had keptain when it was over for me, too I had no such certainty now
I was so lost in ain The sun was gone, replaced with the cavern walls froht didn’t come from crystal
We stood on the banks of a lake of f ire Flames f lickered toward my feet, and as I took a startled step back on the black sand, Ja more than an annoyance
And then I heard the screaony that I could feel it in e I didn’t understand, and horrif ied, I squinted into the f ire
He hung froness before they reached the ceiling The lower half of his body was immersed in the lake, and his expression isted with pain I couldn’t i down into the f ire, but as soon as it disappeared, new f lesh replaced it
He was being burned alive again and again without relief