“We have to stop them,” I gasped out, my right hand releasing Cronus to grab at the necklace. No matter that we’d learned the box was fated to open after a thousand years, I still felt guilt. Immense guilt.
“It’s my responsibility to get these assholes back in their cage,” I murmured. “Maybe, until we figure out this box thing, we can put them into the necklace. There’s a reason it attached to me. A reason I was the one called to it. I think it’s time we start trapping them again.”
Cronus made a noise from the back of his throat, and it wasn’t a happy sound. I wasn’t sure which part upset him, but something I said bothered him.
“Hyperion and Selene were the ones to devise the box initially to trap them,” Cronus said. “Hyperion will know the best way to trap them. We don’t have much time though—Rhea is losing strength. I can feel her from here. We must hurry.”
Feel her from here?Jealously flared within me.
#No #ThatsFucked #MaybeWeCanTrapHerToo #IKnowAGreatPrison
Thankfully he didn’t pick up on my jealous, bitchy thoughts, and instead continued on, with less speed this time, until eventually we reached a fork in the cave system. Hound didn’t even hesitate, turning right, and when we ended up at a dead end I wondered if the sins had left so easily for another reason. Maybe we couldn’t get to Hyperion’s remains. Maybe it was too hard.
Cronus and the Hound stared at the wall for many long moments, and I stared too, pretending to be focused like they were. At some point, I napped for a bit.
Cronus jolted me awake when he jerked his arm back and slammed his fist into the ice in front of us. The wall—and the entire fucking cave—shuddered, and he didn’t stop there. He pulled his arm back again and again, punching in slightly different spots every time.
“It’s a puzzle,” he said, answering my unspoken curiosity. “They’ve got the remains locked behind this ice wall of energy. The only way through is to hit it in the exact pattern.”Slam, slam, slam. It continued on. “Took me a while to figure it out, but now I have to move fast or the entire cave will collapse on us.”
Great.
#JustFuckingGreat
