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cabin.
    She should have expected something like this from the girl. She remembered, too well, the night she had left the Neried village of Atlantis.

    Leucothea had been near inconsolable as Kat packed her belongings into her duffel bag. Kat had tried to calm her down, but she had screamed and even threw a rather large clay pot at Kat’s head. The pot missed. Shattering against the wall. But a small shard had nicked Kat in the cheek.
    When Kat had touched the shallow wound with her fingertips and saw the beads of crimson there, she remembered why she was leaving in the first place. She finished packing in silence and left within minutes without saying good-bye to the girl.
    “How did you track me on my bike?”
    Leucothea reached into a pocket in her cloak and pulled out a small black box with a gray screen and a metal button no bigger than a ten-cent coin. A red light blinked rapidly on the map that radiated from the screen.
    “With this. Damian gave it to me last time I saw him. He thought I might be able to use it one day.” She slid it back into her shroud. “I put the tracer on your bike the day before you left. And then I stole one of Nemo’s solar carts and followed the red blinking light to your bike parked just outside of town.”
    Kat shook her head but almost smiled at the girl’s ingenuity.
    When Hades opened the door to his cabin, Kat and Mary ushered Leucothea into the kitchen. Kat sat her down in one of the chairs and turned to ask Hades for something hot for her to drink. But Mary was already there, lighting the stove and setting the metal teapot on the burner.
    “A hot spot of tea will do her good,” Mary chattered, seemingly comfortable in Hades’ kitchen as she filled a cup full of various herbs.
    Kat sat in the chair facing Leucothea while Hades brought out a thick fur blanket and wrapped it around the girl.
    “Thanks, Hades,” Leucothea said as she smiled up at him.
    He smiled back and patted her on the head. “It’s all right, kid.”
    “It’s not all right,” Kat growled. “You could have been killed out there. Where the fuck is your head, Thea? You have no training for this shit. You’re a young, inexperienced girl with no fucking clue of what’s out there!”
    Mary gasped. “Don’t talk to her like that.”
    “Shut up. You don’t know her or me or what’s going on here,” Kat snarled at Mary.
    Mary straightened her shoulders and stuck out her chin in defiance. “I know Hades.”
    Kat sniffed. “Not as well as you’d like, I suspect.”

    Mary gasped again. “What exactly is that supposed to mean?”
    Leucothea sat up straighter. “I’m not a child you know, Kat. You can’t tell me what to do.”
    Kat turned her gaze to Leucothea. “Someone needs to tell you because you’re following me around like an immature brat who’s just looking to get killed.”
    “Who do you think you are, speaking to everyone like that?” Mary questioned, her hands on her hips.
    Kat stood up and leaned over the table toward the woman. “Once again you have no idea what the fuck is going on. I suggest you shut your yap before I shut it for you.”
    “Kat, you’re being a bitch,” Leucothea whined.
    “Shut the fuck up, all of you!” Hades’ voice boomed through the kitchen like thunder.
    Kat swiveled toward Hades. She’d heard that tone before. It meant he was very near to losing his patience. On the outside, he always seemed so in control, unfazed, but she knew he had a ticking time bomb of violence planted inside him just like she did.
    It just took a lot longer to burn his fuse.
    He put his arm around Mary’s shoulders and steered her toward the door. “Thank you, Mary, for your help, but it’s time for you to go home while you still can.”
    Mary gazed up at him wide-eyed and in shock, but she didn’t say a word as he ushered her out the door. She managed to squeak a hurried good-bye before he shut and locked the door behind her.
    When he came back to the table, his eyes