“The problem is that overnight the number of plane crashes, and just mechanical issues with planes that were getting ready to take off, have doubled. Overnight thousands have died. People are calling it the apocalypse,” Kira shouts.
“Hold on, what? You’re saying multiple planes crashed overnight?” I ask for clarification.
“Yes, and that’s not the only thing. Even more people have disappeared just driving down the road to go home from work. All over the world, GPS is failing and people are lost,” Kira says.
“What do you mean the GPS is failing?” I ask.
“Just like the first reports, it has signal one second and the next it’s gone. None of the signals have popped up again. It’s as if the vehicles don’t exist in this place.” Kira shakes her head.
“Every signal is unique to the vehicle?” I ask.
“Yes, I wanted to study technology and logistics before I found out I was a demigod and couldn’t even touch it without bad things potentially happening,” Kira says.
“I’m sorry,” I whisper.
Jayden throwing my phone out the window on our way to Halfling Academy flits through my brain and I grin over at the son of Hades. He gave me a crash course that I wasn’t prepared for when he did that. I was so mad but I understood whenwe first met Tristan and the demon pigeons found us almost instantly.
“It’s fine. I’m a daughter of Hephaestus. We just have to adapt magic to do the same thing human technology does.” Kira shrugs.
“You’re well on your way to doing that, my friend.” I glance around at what she has already accomplished with a smile.
“I’m trying.” She blushes. “It’s a lot of trial and error.”
“It will help a ton. It already has.” I point to the radio.
“It’s not good enough,” Kira says. “Not fast enough.”
“Do you want to stay here and keep working?” I raise a brow at her.
“No. I need to go with my men.” She shakes her head.
“I’m sure Dax would stay behind with you. I can promise we won’t let anything happen to Draven, but we do need him. I don’t trust anyone else in the Hermes house to do this.” I flop into a chair.
“The fact that we trust Draven enough to do this now is a huge step in the right direction.” Jayden pulls me into his lap.
“He has proven himself,” I say. “He helped last time and has had our backs since. We had our backs against the wall and thought we were going to lose.”
“The betrayal got to him a little more than I would have guessed,” Kira says softly.
“I think I would have had a similar reaction and rethought my life choices had I been in a similar position.” I nod.
“In any case,” Kira says, “I refuse to be separated from either of my men so if Draven is needed, I’m going too.”
“We’re already packed,” Dax says. “We knew we would need to leave quickly but what happens now? The roads are crazy and planes keep crashing from the sky.”
“We adapt to whatever’s going to happen as it happens.” I shrug. “We can’t change things so we take it as it comes.”
“If Kira’s going, then so am I,” Dax says.
“Agreed. There’s no point in limiting the number of demigods in the group at this point. There’s safety in numbers. The queen already knows that we’re coming for her anyway.”
“Plus, Hermes never fought monsters,” Kira says. “Just giants.”
“Giants aren’t always bad,” I say. “Look at Orion. He’s a giant and he’s a good guy that shows understanding to others. This may not be as bad as we think.”
“When do we leave?” Kira asks.
“As soon as we find Adrian and Draven.” I glance around the war room. “Do you have your bags with you?”
