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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