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choice.
     
    He
gritted his gold teeth nervously and contacted Bethos via telepathy. Someone’s
trying to get into the Tower. He’s making an unnecessary mess of things .
     
    Bethos
responded, I’m sending reinforcements. Wait until they arrive. Don’t try
taking them on by yourself .
     
    By the time they arrive, it might be too late. If this person has
the Blood Key, we can’t afford to wait.
     
    Don’t do it. Wait for reinforcements. And with that, Bethos
was gone.
     
    Heimdall
stood up. He knew what he had to do. Orders or no, he wasn’t able to wait
around while some unknown god made his way into the Tower of Babel and helped himself to all the goodies inside. The most dangerous weapons on the planet
were stored in there, and a twisted mind could do almost anything with them.
    And
there were plenty of twisted minds in Zero Grade.
     
    Heimdall
launched himself off the building and towards the Tower.
     
    * * *
     
    The
three of them once again sat down in the living room. Ev’s mother had suitably
recovered from the shock of his revelations and was now willing to talk about
it. “It’s a lot to take in,” she said.
     
    Ev
nodded. “I know. Think of how much it was for me to take in, being the
one who had to go through it all.
     
    “But
at the same time,” Anni said, “I’m so proud of you. My son, a god! Not only
that, but you fought to save the world.”
     
    He
looked away, sheepishly. “Well, I really didn’t do that much to help Professor
Strong…”
     
    But
Maya said, “That’s not true, Ev. You distracted Belial long enough for
Professor Strong to pull the spear out of his chest and hurl it at him,
piercing him in the heart and killing him.”
     
    “And
what was your role in this?” Anni asked her inquisitively.
     
    Maya
squirmed, afraid to admit the truth of her involvement. Ev decided to help her
out by telling his mother the truth. “Maya was by my side at the time. She
healed me after Belial struck me with lightning.”
     
    Anni
rushed over and took Maya’s hand. “Thank you so, so much for everything you’ve
done for Ev. He’s so, so lucky to have someone like you in his life. He’d be
dead if not for you.”
     
    Looking
uncomfortable, Maya averted her gaze. She was clearly tempted to admit the
truth, that she was the one who had put Ev in so much danger in the first
place.
     
    “Please,
Misses Bannen—”
     
    “Call
me Anni.”
     
    “Please,
Anni. I didn’t do that much. Ev’s done so much more for me than I’ve done for
him.”
     
    “Really?
Like what?”
     
    Before
Maya could say what she was thinking, Ev intervened. “I just helped her out
with some things. No big deal.”
     
    Perhaps
sensing she was wading into sensitive waters, Anni backed off. “Well, I won’t
pry. I’m just glad you two are there for one another. I worried about Ev for
years, but I now I think he’s going to be OK…”
     
    His
mother’s words were droned out by a ringing in their ears. It was Freya. Attention,
all students of Divine Protector Academy currently on leave. An emergency has
been declared. Everyone is hereby instructed to return to the Academy
immediately .
     
    “Sorry,
Mom, but something has just come up. We need to get going.”
     
    Ev
and Maya rose to leave. Anni looked confused. “Those giants aren’t invading
again, are they?”
     
    “I’m
sure it’s nothing,” Maya said.
     
    “Well,
OK.” Anni hugged the two of them and told Ev to keep in touch.
     
    * * *
     
    They
returned to the plane. A bunch of students were crowding in and around the
cockpit, pressuring Brandon to tell them what the emergency was. He danced
around the question as best he could. “I don’t know all the details. You’ll
find out once we get back to the Academy. I can’t tell you any more than that.”
The students pressured him further, but he kicked them out of the cockpit,
telling them to take their seats.
     
    Ev
and Maya took theirs. “I wonder if the Nephilim really