Page 123 of Zeus' Spark
“Okay, we’re close. It just may take us a bit to find the exact location.” I sigh, scrubbing a hand over my face.
He nods. “Okay, we will be ready. I have been taking care of the younger kids. We are all here and accounted for.”
Thank fuck for that.
“Good. Be careful. We will be there as soon as we can. The academy isn’t faring well. We need this to end already.” I cut the call without a goodbye.
It doesn’t matter because we need to hurry as much as possible.
“What the fuck do we do now?” Greyson asks as he peers around at the wilderness.
“We need to keep moving.” I stand, dusting myself off.
Jayden rubs my shoulder. “It’s dark. We should make camp and start in the morning.”
“We don’t have time to waste.” I rasp as my chest pangs with panic.
My breathing shallows and my hands shake.
The academy is under attack, and Draven and the others are the only ones we have to help stop it.
They can’t hold on forever.
“Wandering around at night when we can’t really see isn’t going to get us there any faster, Beth. It will just get us more lost,” Raven reasons.
She’s right, but honestly, things are so bad at the academy that I’m not going to be able to stop moving until we do something about it.
I throw my hands up. “What does it matter when we don’t have any idea what direction we’re even going?”
“I think we should continue north,” Greyson chimes in, looking at the compass in his hand.
“I don’t know. What if they’re the opposite direction from the crowns?” I ask, unsure where the fuck to go.
“Wait, Beth. Remember what the muse said when she requested that we get the crowns? She said it was on our way,” Jayden reminds me. “Maybe she meant literally, and we should go north.”
I nod.
We have had subtle clues along the way.
“Agreed, but we need to wait until at least dawn to do anything.” Raven takes her pack off her shoulders and crouches down to unzip it. “If I have to walk one more step tonight, I am going to scream.”
“Fine. I’ll take first watch. I won’t be able to sleep anyway.” I sit down on the log with a huff.
Jayden takes a seat next to me. “I know you don’t like stopping after what Adrian told you, but we need to rest, and wandering around in the dark and unknown could be worse than waiting until daybreak.”
“You guys aren’t wrong. Just tell my fidgeting that though.” I lean back to look at the stars through the trees.
They twinkle in the night sky, but not even the stars calm my nerves.
What if we’re too late? What if we get the Hermes kids back, but the academy is destroyed?
What if I’m not enough to save everyone?
“What if we don’t make it in time?” I voice my fear to Jayden. “I’m supposed to be this powerful fucking demigod, but I don’t feel all that powerful right now. I feel…lost.”
“You are fucking powerful, but even the best of us feel lost sometimes, Beth.” He pulls me close, tucking my head beneath his chin.
“In theory, I agree, but what if…” I don’t get to finish my sentence because Jayden cuts me off with a searing kiss.
