Starcrossed (Starcrossed 1) - Page 246

?If you had been training with me today, you would have known

that you can use your bolts underwater,? he said, yanking on his

broken arm to straighten out the bones with a sickening crack. He

screamed and fell to his knees, panting for a moment before continuing

through gritted teeth. ?But you didn?t show up for

practice.?

They sat next to each other on the sand for a while, both of them

too injured to move. As they healed, the setting sun seemed to give

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up on the day and jump headlong into the water. The sky grew

dark.

?I thought you were descended from Apollo,? Helen rasped.

Her vocal cords were still damaged, but she didn?t need to say

anything more, anyway. Hector didn?t come off like the smartest

member of the Delos clan, but Helen was starting to suspect that

even if he didn?t spend as much time reading books as Cassandra

did, he was every bit as clever as the rest of his family.

?A minor sea goddess called a Nereid mixed with our House

somewhere along the way. There are a lot of minor gods and spirits

of the water or the woods still running around here and there, and

things happen over thousands of years. None of the House lines

are purely descended from one god or another anymore, and all

the younger generation of Scions have more talents than their parents,?

he answered.

?Why is that??

?Cassandra thinks is has something to do with the Fates wanting

the Scions to acquire more talents and become more powerful so

they can rule Atlantis, but personally I just think it?s because we?re

all mutts. My great-great-grandfather sleeps with a nymph, and I

get to walk underwater. You don?t need the Fates to explain that

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