I didn’t see anything on the screen, but Elmer pivoted.“I’ll see him in.”
Card watched him go.“Any reason why someone shouldn’t follow him?”
“On it,” Josie said.“We shouldn’t have a problem, because nothing can get through the door Scout’s gonna use, but good call on the paranoid caution, Wizard.”She jogged out of the room to catch up with Elmer.
“Weather’s picking up,” Pamela said.
Lightning popped across the sky, serpent quick, a huge roll of thunder breaking through the silence.
We were buried a good distance underground.I didn’t want to think about how loud that had to have been to reach us this far down.
“That’s not a storm,” Abbi said.“It’s a god.”
“Thor?”Lula asked.
Abbi shook her head.
Card wrapped his hand around the amulet and closed his eyes for a moment.Light glowed through the sleeves of his hoodie.
“Not Thor,” he said.“That is a dark, chaotic power.”
“Atë?”I asked.
“I don’t think so.”
“Apep?”Lula asked.
We hadn’t seen the god of chaos yet, though the hunters said he was on our tail.
“I’d need to use stronger magic to know, and right now, I think it’s a bad idea to draw that kind of attention our way.”
“Yeah, let’s not do that,” Pamela agreed.
The screens whited out and thunder roared, loud enough, I wanted to cover my ears.
“Wow,” Abbi mouthed.
It was maybe five minutes later when Josie called out from the other room.
“All clear?”
“Steady on,” Pamela called back.
Josie strode into the room.“Scout says it’s god power, thinks it’s Apep.But the god isn’t near.This is a remote scan.”
“So, a sweep to see if anything pings,” Pamela said.
“Likely.”
“Not sure I want to bet my life on likely,” I said.
“We’ll wait it out, see if he takes his storm and moves on,” Elmer said, stepping back into the room.“Or if he wants to make trouble.”
The minutes ticked by.I counted the seconds between the flashes of lightning and thunder, my gaze glued to the screens.At first, it seemed the storm was stationed above us, refusing to leave.
Then a huge wind picked up and rain fell in sheets.It was impossible, but I thought I heard ravens calling over the storm.
The lightning crackled toward the west.Thunder thumped and exploded, like bombs punching through the sky to shake the horizon, moving farther and farther away with each strike.
