“Hidden things are always found again,” Pamela said.
Josie hummed in agreement.“Can it be destroyed?”
Weirdly, Raven and Cupid looked at each other for the answer.
“Not that we know of,” Raven finally said.
“Not thatanyoneknows of,” Cupid corrected.“It’s old and unique.The only relic of its kind.If there is a power that can destroy it, it likely would have done so by now.”
“Probably,” Raven said.“Enough people and powers have been looking for it.If it could have been destroyed someone would have done it.”
“You don’t think Brogan and Lula can destroy it, do you?”Pamela asked.
Cupid shrugged.“Maybe.But only Brogan and Lula will know.”
All eyes turned our way.
“We don’t know,” Lula said.“We just got possession of it again.We haven’t touched it to find out.”
“Why’s that?”Elmer asked.
“Because when we touch it,” I said, “whenLulatouches it, it’s likely other things, other monsters and gods, will notice.”
“And?”Josie asked.
“And head our way to kill us for the book.”
“This doesn’t make sense.”Pamela sipped coffee, frown lines between her eyebrows.“These two are fine with you having the book even though they are obviously very powerful.No, I don’t know exactly what you are, but I can see you’re hiding a lot of power.”
“Fair,” Raven said.
“Why not take the book for yourselves?”
“Because we can’t touch it,” Cupid said.“Just as none of you can touch it.The book chooses who can wield the power within it.As far as I can tell, there are only two souls alive on Earth who can touch the book and cast its spells.”
The eyes returned to us, this time with a mix of shock and worry.
“Hard luck,” Elmer said.“You never want to be the chosen one in these sorts of situations.”
“Don’t we know it,” I said.
“Then you really do need to hear why we drove three states to get to you,” Elmer said.“You have a god on your tail.”
“Mithra?”Lula asked.“Atë?”
“Not them,” Pamela said.“The stirring on hunter radio?—”
“—it’s not an actual radio.Just a way we get important information to each other,” Josie said.“Big information.”
“Right,” Pamela said.“We’re hearing—everyone is hearing—that you’re being hunted.By a god.”
We were the target of another god.It should worry me, but we’d caught the attention of Cupid, Raven, and Death himself.We’d been hunted by Mithra, and Atë.
That was a lot of gods for one life.
It wasn’t that I wasn’t concerned, but the hits kept coming and nothing could surprise me right now.
What was one more god added to the pile of gods who were already trying to kill us?
