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“How are we going to end this?” Apollo asked, clapping palms with me after Ares did.
“Together.” I looked over my shoulder. “Elyse, get out of here. We’ll finish up.”
Elyse stared at me, a look of shock on her face. She hadn’t expected to see me here. But there was only one way I could change her mind about me, and that was to show her.
“I’m staying to fight.” She squared her shoulders, lifting her chin defiantly.
“You’ve done all you can. We need to work out how to stuff X back into the box where he belongs. It’s up to us now. And I owe my fair share of fixing this shit for a change.”
She stared at me for a long pause, almost convincing me she’d fight me on this. Except, I spoke the truth. The battle would simply be about gods’s energy against energy, otherwise I’d welcome Elyse to fight alongside me. She could fight as well as any of us.
Finally, she nodded and helped her friend off the ground. “Come on. We’re going home,” she said. She glanced at me one more time before I wrapped her in my power to send them back to Earth. A moment later, Catina and Elyse disappeared.
“Right.” I nodded when the four of us were alone. “Let’s wrap this up.”
