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Gods

"That left ten Of course, as we know, Ares had a stick up his ass and was planning to turn the e He knew of our plan He went right along with it He knocked off fourOf course, his own kid wasn’t one of the ones he killed"

Amy time with Ares, he’d mentioned none of this Not that I was surprised There was a lot he hadn’t told me, and even more I simply hadn’t questioned, because I hadn’t cared Not at first, at least Tension crept into ods, eren’t they used to help defeat Ares?"

He wiggled his booted feet "Everything we do has a cosods’ powers can only be unbound tays At least six of them have to be in the same location at one time, and then it’s like a universal remote All of their abilities are released naturally, like a syste critical mass The second way is for us to release their powers, but that’s… that is s to us If we make that decision, it weakens us considerably and it would take time for us to recover Another costautness "I still don’t get why you guys didn’t pull the deed the--"

"The outcoed Alex would still be where she is now Moving on," he said "What matters now is that we need theer twelve of us, we don’t have the cosmic mojo to do so Now that they’ve escaped, we can’t put them back The chore would fall to those who carry our blood It won’t be easy for thes they must accomplish first You know, checks and balances, Seth"

I didn’t care about the checks and balances "Then get theaet this shit over with"

"It’s not that siuesses"

"How in the hell do you not knohere they are?"

"When we bound their abilities, it also blocked us fro them Over the years, we’ve been able to keep track of a few of theod who fathered ortabs Many weren’t"

"Yeah, because you guys are paradig"

He sue that But, we’re actively searching for the about three weeks ago They disappeared Poof Gone"