enough to get him to pick up Creon and follow Castor out of the
town center and out into the moors.
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Chapter Nineteen
Helen stared at the glass of water in front of her as it
sweated condensed moisture onto the kitchen table.
She?d already drunk what seemed like a bathtub full of
water and she wasn?t thirsty anymore, but she held on
to this last glass to give herself something else to look
at besides the bereft faces around her.
?His whole life is this family. This House,? Ariadne said. Her eyes
were wide, red, and staring, like someone who had been stuck in
too many different airports in too many different time zones for
too long. They all looked like that?like they?d woken up to find
themselves on the wrong side of the planet. ?How can Hector be
Outcast from the House of Thebes??
?I could have stopped him,? Jason said with grim certainty.
?You can barely sit up straight in your chair right now, Jase,? Ariadne
said, shaking her head. Jason had yet to recover from healing
Claire, and his twin wouldn?t let him take responsibility for
something that he hadn?t even seen. ?I was there. I should have
stopped it.?
?You weren?t on India Street when Hector killed Creon, Ari,?
Helen said, still staring at her water glass. ?I was.?
?Stop it, Helen,? Lucas said. ?You and your mother saved this
family, or at least, you saved what?s left of it.?
Lucas?s words brought fresh tears for Pandora. After several