up to her window, sat down at her desk, and wrote a note to her
father. She told him that she loved him, that she was safe, and that
she was never coming back, making the note brief so she wouldn?t
have to fill it up with lies. He had been a good father, and if she
couldn?t be completely honest with him, the least she could do was
lie as little as possible.
She flew out of her window and back to the Delos compound as
soon as she was done writing. It was a comfort to Helen to know
that while she was sneaking away later that night her father would
still be oblivious. Hopefully, for all of their sakes, Kate would be
there for Jerry in the morning when he found the note. Thinking of
that, she flew east across the darkening island with a feeling that
approached peace.
Before she even touched down, Castor was running out of the
house to meet her on the lawn, waving his arms over his head as if
to signal her to hurry. He was shouting something about her
mother.
Daphne had to wait until the little strategy session broke up before
she could sneak into the library and look around. All she needed
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was the return address on the last few bits of mail from Tantalus to
the Nantucket faction of the House of Thebes. Then, after so many
years, she might finally be able to figure out Tantalus?s pattern of
motion.
She was only missing a few bits of information?a city name and
she would know where to go from there. Then she would find Tantalus
and kill him exactly the same way he had killed her sweet
Ajax. Daphne had imagined it a million times. As soon as he came
to the door she was going to chop off his head off while his wife
watched. If she avenged him, then maybe when Atropos cut her