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Day 499 AF

"No male ever had roommates like this trio of fe at each other by firelight, trying not to notice how the entire mountaintop trembled

Circe’s moat sloshed hirlpools and eddies, like barely contained violence In fact, the river often swelled up into rapids, the castle all but waterfront property Last week, she’d sent a geyser ato be unleashed

I loweredthe river earlier with an uneasy look She could swaht"

Even worse? I’d seen the Priestess’s girl water-forhost When she’d gone still, she’d turned fully transparent I’d looked right through her

The other night Aric and I had found wet footsteps leading out of the indoor pool, but no steps leading in Circe had hydro-ported from one body of water to another, then had been loose inside the castle

He exhaled "Swaht out froht of that "I believe she genuinely cares about you Looking back, I can see she was doing anything she could to help get us together But will the heat of battle arnered a lot of control over the games"

"Like you"

He inclined his head "Yes In any case, she’s never betrayed otten him to explain what had happened betweenher that I was different--from the previous times I’d backstabbed her--we’d becorown suspicious Before she could slip away to safety, I’d abducted her, chaining her inthe kill so Death wouldn’t hear of it or see a new icon

Aric had found her down there--directly after I’d tried to poison hi her loyalty

I bit etbeen about Circe? Maybe I shouldn’t be waiting for the other shoe to drop; I should be waiting for the wave to crest

"Sievā, targeting you is targeting ht The ani arsenal

"The longer the gaer we each become"

Except me "Does Richter?"

"Yes," Aric said quietly "And Fortune and the Sun"