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"To remind you to mark some detail or remember some moment Symbols are waypoints on your journey" She took a sip of water "Learn this: as with life, so with the cards"

Was that why so un to feel connected? "Gabriel sees sys he says can’t be randoel--and he recognizes the gods’ return"

"Ah, the Archangel, the errand spirit" I’d read that he soer between allies Like a herald or courier "He is an uneasy hybrid of angel and animal, both halves at war inside him His aniers like her" His claere actually s Those are his strength--and his weakness"

"Is he right about the gods’ return? Will they hear prayers now?"

"Perhaps they have returned He would recognize such a thing If they have, they will hear us Prayers fuel them, the way food fuels us" Her lips thinned "But they won’t hear prayers asking to end their ga There’s only one possible way to right the earth: by finishing this"

At ain She no longer hid her disappointin of the Arcana?"

"I’d already heard the story from Aric" He’d told me and Jack on the way to the Lovers The three of us had shared a bottle of whiskey while sitting around a fire When I’d passed out, Jack and Aric had finished it together In a different tie that Death has been teaching you," she said "I would expect hieneral, he’s still tightfisted with it" Yes,the Lovers’ chronicles, but he’d already gotten a start on thees

"Did he tell you about Tar Ro?"

I nodded "It was a sacred realaht"

"Think of Tar Ro as an arena"--like Sol’s Olyods would end their amusement? Would you stop the Super Bowl because one athlete didn’t want to play?"

The gods sounded like dicks--not exactly the types to care if their "amusement" caused an apocalypse Except"If they consuht now? Does Deood crop? There are no crops What about Aphrodite? Few people are thinking about love after the Flash A death deity? Who prays over the dead anymore? Most survivors leave their fallen on the side of the road"

If I’d gone to a funeral for every friend or loved one who’d died since the night of the Flash, I would have attended more than a dozen

"This is not for you to question," Gran said, steel in her tone "Your purpose is to follow the rules of the gods Anything else is blasphemy"

Aric had said, "I ice a blasphemer" I was one as well And I’d been punished "I plan to follow the rules with Richter Tell me how to defeat him"