Why don’t you all help us make lunch? Then we’ll talk about the monster who controls our city.” It’s the only way I’ve stayed sane the past two weeks. “I-I need to do something productive with my hands. Who is he? What did he do with Georgina?”Įmmie rose unsteadily to her feet. “In my vision,” I recalled, “I heard Nero call this emperor the New Hercules. I did not like the idea of another young girl being taken by another evil emperor. I hadn’t even met this second member of the Triumvirate yet, and I already hated him. “We didn’t realize how closely they were connected. I could tell she was trying hard to suppress a sob. “But the girl and the Oracle must be connected somehow.”Įmmie closed her eyes.
I wanted to divide myself into a dozen different manifestations so I could pursue every answer at once, but alas, mortals don’t split easily. That was the first we knew of its existence.” Agamethus appeared here with baby Georgie. Like Apollo said, he was the brother of Trophonius, the spirit of the Oracle. Our ghostly friend has been dead since ancient times. And no, Leo, Agamethus is not Georgina’s father. Agamethus isn’t your kid’s dad, is he? Also…you’re telling me I’m wearing the overalls of a seven-year-old girl, and they fit?” Leo must have been thinking deeply-a tuft of fire broke out at the top of his left ear. It’s the one question the Magic 8 Ball never answers.” “We’ve never been able to get that information from him. She…she was brought to our door by Agamethus.”Įmmie spread her hands. Then, seven years ago, we were blessed with Georgina. “The Lady’s Hunters often stop here at the Waystation…though we have not seen Artemis herself in decades. “You must have parted with Artemis on good terms,” I said. I got the feeling they finished each other’s sentences a lot, their thoughts were in such comfortable harmony.
“We loved each other more,” Josephine supplied. “We delighted in being Hunters, both of us. Just like a human! We give you immortality and godly power, then you trade it in for love and a loft in downtown Indianapolis. She had not only given up being a Hunter in doing so she had also given up the divinity I had granted her. How could two siblings be so different? But I was also irritated with Hemithea. Thinking about my sister and her anti-romantic ideas irritated me. The mission of the Hunters is to live without romantic distractions of any kind.” My sister is quite unreasonable in that regard. “But don’t they forswear the company of men? If you two fell in love-” “I don’t know much about Lady Artemis, or her rules for followers-”Ĭalypso glared at him. Very happily.” She wiped away a tear, not looking terribly happy at the moment.Ĭalypso flexed her recently broken hand. Josephine gazed into the distance, as if the building’s walls were as transparent as the Magic 8 Ball’s base.
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