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A loud crash echoed through the cavern Startled, I looked up toward the sound, and a sick sense of dread f illed the pit offrom the sky

CHAPTER TEN

FISSU R E

"Kate!"

Ja rock and ringing bells, and I darted out of the carnival, covering round shook beneath ns of the fallen stars

I s on?" I said, unable to keep the panic out of my voice

"I don’t know" He wrapped his arether we hurried back to the f ire "Whatever it is, I’ve never seen anything like it before"

The f lah the cavern, but the rocks weren’t landing in the f ield or the forest or anywhere near the carnival Ava and Persephone stared upward into the sky, wearing identical expressions of alar here, then where--

Without warning, the world dropped out froain Instead of the dense forest that surrounded Eden, I stood on a cliff overlooking the bluest water I’d ever seen as wave after wave rolled to the white shore

James and I had only spent a few days on this particular island, but the ancient palace in the distance and the sharp drop into the water were unmistakable This was Greece

"Did you feel that?" someone shouted behind me "I told you this would happen I told you" Dylan dashed past o shorts and a tank top The othersi a few feet away I inched closer to see

Had I been transported back up here soh, I set h her

I was a ghost again, and this was a vision, but it wasn’t the one I’d wanted

"He’s breaking through," said Irene She and several of the others held out their hands toward the ground, and a jolt of fear ran downaround a crack in the earth It couldn’t have beenslithered up through it, f licking like the tongue of a snake as if they were tasting the air itself

Cronus

The re members of the council held out their hands as they’d done back in the palace, and the tendrils twisted like they were annoyed, but they f inally disappeared back into the ground

"He’s done it," said Irene, wiping the sweat frooes all the way down?" said Theo

"How else could he come up like that?" said Dylan