And now she had no doubt that Gahijidid.
“YOU ARE BREACHING POLITICAL boundaries coming
here like this,” Dagan snarled. “Are you trying to start
a war on the eve of Sutekh’s bid for peace? What could
be so important about a mortal child that would make
you risk my father’s wrath?”
He could feel the hate and suspicion pouring from
Calliope Kane as he spoke. No doubt she thought he
had brought the others here, led them to her. Perhaps
he had. Perhaps they had followed him when he had
come after Roxy.
But he didn’t think so.
He thought Gahiji had come to Calliope’s, looking
for information about Dana, that he was as surprised
to see Dagan here as Dagan was to see him.
The two other soul reapers circled forward. They
gave Dagan a deferential berth, but they seemed bound
and determined to obey Gahiji. They were new. Very
new. He didn’t even know their names.
In that second, it was like blinders dropped from his
eyes.
Gahiji wasn’t here at the old man’s behest. He
wasn’t even here with the old man’s knowledge. Gahiji
didn’t give a shit about the upcoming meeting of the
leaders and gods of the Underworld.
EVE SILVER
371
Because just as Dagan had begun to suspect, Gahiji
wasn’t playing on Sutekh’s side of the board anymore.
The Marin brothers. The kid, Dana. The question of
