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Celeste,Kaphas realized.
You think?Handy said, adding his own fears to the volatile mix surging inside them
I don’t think. I know.Make them tell us.
“Where is Celeste?” Handy asked, his question bringing a flicker of electricity along Fathom’s skin.
It is her.
Kult’s gaze swung back and forth between them, and he pulled his phone out.
“Who are you calling?” Handy asked.
“Harlow. To find out what boat she’s on. What do I need to know about her, clearly this is the big secret.”
“Whatever it is,” Handy warned, “our brothers should tell us before our powers extract it from them.”
“Where are you?” Kult said on the phone. “Here?” He looked at Handy. “What boat is Celeste on? It’s here? Thank you.” He hung up and headed for the door. “Let’s go find out what’s going on.”
“It’s not that simple, brother,” Fetch warned.
Kult halted and turned as this news brought Kaphas’ power so quickly it blew out the glass in the windows and slammed Kult into the door.
“What the fuck!” Kult gasped.
“Tell us brother!” Handy yelled as their Kevlar turned molten and flooded into all their pores. “I cannot control this!”
“Becauseshehas your control!”
Handy flashed to Fetch and grabbed him by the neck, unable to stop the need to destroy raging through him. His brother’s bones morphed into a dense material, sending his backlash diving into the codes to unravel them so he could crush them. “Five seconds and these powers will find you!” Handy warned, as Kaphas strained to help him hold it back.
What is happening?Kaphas demanded, his fear getting unmanageable.
A jolt of electricity seized their mind and muscles as Fathom removed their death clutch from Fetch’s throat. “She has your demons, brother,” he said, right in his face.
A switch flipped inside them, and they stared into his sparking eyes, heaving with the terror his words brought.
“She doesn’t have all of them,” Fin said. “But to remove them will not be simple.”
“Quantum…” Handy gasped, turning to Fetch then Kult. “Harlow will know how, he’ll know what to do. They need to remove them from her and from Kaphas and give them to me in a new vessel, one equipped to quarantine and sustain them and I will take them so far from here you will forget they ever existed.”
Kult stormed up to him and latched his hand on his throat, getting right in his face. “If you think you’re trying that bullshit again, you’re out of your motherfucking mind. You’re not leaving this place or this fucking planet, not for anything, not for anybody, as long as I have breath in me. We will findanotherway.”
“The Syphon King,” Fetch said.
“And their Seer,” Fathom realized.
“And their Reliquary,” Fin, finished.
“They can help,” the triplets said in unison.
For Kaphas and Handy, their final words meant only one thing they cared about. Salvation.
“Let’s find them,” Kult said, hurrying out the door.
We need to get to her, Celeste needs us,Kaphas urged.
We will.
