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“This is Mercury, not the Rim We don’t have hypercanes Ever”

“He can summon storms,” I say

Ajax snorts “He’s a htmare”

“He’s using Storm Gods,” I say

“The only Storm Gods left are on Triton and Pluto”

“Look at the patterns of the stor to the map “The killzone Darrow intended to land us in was here The storms form a circle It can’t be coincidence Those temperature fluctuations in the ocean must be manmade Like this sandstorm”

Their eyes go hard

“He intended to pin us in, cut us off fro of the third, and hunt us down inside the circle But he didn’t expect anyone this far south I bet my life a Storm God is out there sohtly defended”

“Where did he get a Storm God, Lysander?” Ajax asks quietly

“Where it was buried, I iine”

“And ould it be buried?”

“As a safeguard against Votum rebellion” They blink with ir

ritating slowness, as though they are surprised that a Sovereign ould annihilate Rhea would haveher family’s invisible leash on a planet as important as Mercury “The ocean storms will have a life cycle even if the Stor the engine down, the sandstorms will abate”

“How quickly?” Seraphina asks “An hour? Two?”