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A strange prickling heat f illedabout it, as if it were a degree away fro pain "What--" I started, but before I could say anything else, Henry stepped between us, and the feeling was gone as soon as it ca me a choice, Henry pushedthe hallway, and I had to run to keep up
"What’s going on?" I said,"What was that?"
"I don’t know," said Henry, and he swore "I aood idea, but he does not listen, and Phillip took his side"
"It’s not your fault" I frowned, and as he rushed , I took inventory I didn’t feel any different "She can’t really kill ht? We can’t kill each other?"
"She cannot kill you, but there are several things she can do to you toWe turned a corner, and I sped up to match his stride "What can she do? I don’t feel any different now Nothing hurts"
"It may not be physical," said Henry "In many ways, she is the most powerful of us all Do not tell your mother or Sof ia I said so, but my sisters are e of brute force, but their abilities center around life itself"
My mother loved nature, I knew that, and she had an uncanny ability to grow anything anywhere Ita tree in the middle of Manhattan counted as a power, it was a nice one to have
"What are you not telling nized where ere now: the hallway that led into the antecha," he said, holding the door open for ift is so i Cronus, and perhaps why she is so convinced that he will not harm her, is because she has the ability to control loyalty and cooddess of s she could control, then--
"Do you think she did so to make me disloyal?" I said How could she possiblyshe would take ahat I loved theh the aisle of pillars "There is a chance she did not have enough time to do whatever it is she wanted to do, but it will not hurt to check The good news is that she did not turn you into an animal"
"She does that?"
"All the time She favors cows in particular" Well, that was a relief, then I didn’t exactly like the idea of having an udder
He stopped at the end of the aisle The other councilin whispers saturated orry, and only a few glanced our way "Theo, if you would"