Starcrossed (Starcrossed 1)

looked down and realized that I was flying, I fainted. I always knew

I was strange, that there was something wrong with me, but I

didn?t know . . .? Helen trailed off. Jason came back to her bedside

and touched her shoulder.

?Nobody blames you,? he said, but Helen waved a dismissive

hand.

?Yeah, you do. You all do. Because I started this when I attacked

Lucas in the hallway at school.?

?You didn?t start this,? Jason replied forcefully. ?This war started

thousands of years ago.? Helen gave him a confused look, but he

shook his head before she could ask any questions. ?Get some

sleep, and don?t worry about Lucas. Even compared to other Sons

of Apollo, he?s really tough.? Jason switched off the light on his way

out, but left the door open a tiny crack in case she needed to call

out for help in the middle of the night.

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Helen snuggled into the down comforter and tried to relax, but

she was jittery with exhaustion and overwhelmed with the strangeness

of the room and the house. And the flying. She could

fly?there was no denying it now. She wasn?t just a gifted athlete

with paranoid notions about possibly being some kind of genetic

experiment. She could frigging fly, which is aerodynamically impossible

for a Homo sapiens, so she had to be something else. Something

other than human.

The only explanation was what Lucas had said, but that didn?t

make much sense, either. The Greek gods were myths, anthropomorphic

manifestations of powerful natural forces, not historical

figures with actual descendants?or so she?d been taught in eighth

grade. But now she wasn?t so sure. She thought of how it felt to fly,

how the air had become solid?a malleable object?and she knew