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Damn

By the tirin tugged at irl was still staring I wiggledon less interesting--but sadly, more important-- topics Like how to convince Josie this was real and neither of us was clinically insane before another shade--or so worse-- popped up

From what I knew about shades, they could possessAnd they were dangerous in their shadowy, spirit fored the question--as Josie still up and walking around if shades were already here? Why hadn’t they taken her out? Unless that ods

Or, unless the shade’s taunt that I was already too lateso the bag through the elevator walls I doubted Apollo would be thrilled if I were already too late Unease stirred in the pit of my stomach, and admittedly, I’d be less than thrilledirl

But she was a pretty, cool girl with a short life expectancy, since she had Titans after her

When the doors opened, I ht’ve been a handful of steps ahen I felt the coiled awareness of so a whole bunch of aether--more than a pure would carry in their blood, even more than what I had

That odlike Not a pure or a half, and definitely not another Apollyon, since I was the only one currently topside And it wasn’t the saot when I’d sensed the shade The sensation increased as I reached Josie’s door, and as I gripped the handle, I swore undera whole lot of aether was in her roo in ed to be filled with the power only draining aether could fill I usually could ignore the urge whenever Apollo was around, because his general dickheadedness overshadowed everything else

But fuck I was like a da for a fix

And that pissedthe doorknob, I tapped into the eleears Open Sesame There was a shriek fro the door shut behind me Took no time to find Josie, since the roo on a bed to ainst the wall, eyes wide and the odd,down over her shoulders, past her breasts Her face was as pale as a dai it to land on a skewed blueseveral ti ain"

She opened her mouth, but then the narrow door near the foot of her bed opened I would’ve thought it was a closet door, but it couldn’t have been, unless a half-naked chick had been hiding in there

If so, this was ood look at the tall girl wearing shorts that barely covered what she had going on and a sports bra, I knew I’d found the source of all that aether goodness

The girl looked to be Josie’s age, which based on what Apollo had said had to be around twenty Her head whipped toward htened Our eyes locked like two bulls ready to knock horns

"Do you see hi fists full of the blanket "Do you see hi off with me, a wall of red-hot fury radiated fro the room

"Do I know you?" I asked

Her features sharpened as she pulled back her lips, baring shark-like teeth "You killed one of irl During the time I ith Ares, I…I’d killed a lot of people Some were pures Some were halfs Sootten in his way Not too different fro to have to narrow that down for me"

She drew back as if she’d been slapped, and yeah, maybe I could’ve been a little more sensitive about my request for additional info, but I was a jackass--and apparently everyone else knew it too

The smile that appeared on her face was aled quality to it Then the girl who called herself Erin stepped forward, shedding heraway the deep hue of her skin Gray wings sprouted out of her back, reaching at least six feet--a huge-ass wingspan that was sort of i claws that could disembowel someone with a flick of the wrist Her black hair thinned all around her head, for a thousand tiny black snakes that snapped at the air around her The dark eyes disappeared, and all-white ones appeared

"Ohto become one with the wall behind her "Oh roaned "Seriously?"

Erin--the na the actual Greek word for furie was Erinyes--rose up off the ground "Yeah," she spat "Seriously"