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I had a horrible suspicion of who they were and where I was

"Hello?" I croaked out

Neither bodymyself the few feet to the closest body The closer I was, I could h cheekbones and full lips, but that was all I could see His jaas bruised and dirtied I placedin air as I felt his cool, cla back, I stared into dull, vacant eyes I opened my mouth to speak, but terror closed my throat off, because I knew--I knew there was barely any life in those eyes

He was almost a shell, a dried-out husk of a person, and theythese two people were the ods The ones ere headed to find

I sat back--fell back on od," I whispered "No No way"

This couldn’t be happening I couldn’t be here Panic unfurled inaround the roood, I couldn’t be here I would wake up and--

No This wasn’t a night forSeth didn’t knoas captured He was gone, and I didn’t knohat had happened to Alex and Aiden or Deacon or Luke I had no idea if they were alive or in here, wherever here was, or soers curled in, nails digging intobreath

I was so screwed

And I was scared--terrified I didn’t want to be I wanted to be like I was sure Alex would be if she were ina way out from the moment she awoke But I wasn’t her I hadn’t trained since birth I was just a ods--I kneas going to happen to me All those horrid, whispered promises Hyperion hadto carry through with the the back of my hand to my mouth, I squeezed my eyes shut Tears burned as the panic infiltrated every vein I couldn’t--

Voices and footsteps echoed outside the chamber, and I froze, unsure of what to do as I tried to decipher the language they spoke Mo "You are a fool, Hyperion You are not the one in control here"

"I did not ask for your council"

She made an exasperated sound "Her? He will come for her and he already--"

"Close your ue out, Tethys," Hyperion warned "You knoill"

My heart stopped and there was only silence for a few seconds, then I sed hard, eyes widening as I heard the locks turning on the door There was nowhere foropen, and light leaked into the roo in the center of it

The ainst the wall and hunched over, curling his forearan to rock

"Good" He strode forward, legs encased in leather "You’re awake Now the fun can really begin"

I threw up a hand "Don’t come any closer"

He stopped, and I could hear the s Concentrating, I reached deep inside of

"What?" I pressed a hand to

Hyperion chuckled "There is nothing you can do You see, Sunshine, nothing is si factor Those bands around your wrists were once around ours"

Lifting ed in Olympus with the blood of Zeus and Cronus," he explained "Titan blood is powerful, and if you mix it with the Olympians? It hat allowed our children to entoh for us to be placed in those tombs They were re Luckily, ere able to find a few"