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Hecate whirled to face her right as the guards closed the door behind them. She threw her hands out and the walls grew silver in color, rippling as if water streamed down them.
Persephone shot Hecate a look of concern.
“What is going on that you need to put a spell of silence around us?” Persephone asked, tracking Hecate’s every move.
“The river. Why did you visit it?” Hecate simply looked at her. Her eyes were mercurial, the witch pulling the strings and Hecate the puppet.
“To check on Tristan—”
“The real reason? That was not the whole reason, was it? You felt something there, didn’t you?” she asked. That Hecate might have felt it too told her it wasn’t all in her head.
“No, I felt something on the side of the river near the boneyard of Tartarus,” she replied as
she took a seat.
Hecate mirrored her and did the same.
“There was an amplifier at the gala,” Hecate divulged quickly as if she was full of information
and was trying to get it out to relieve the tension inside of her.
“A what?” Persephone jolted from her seat and started pacing, “Why would an amplifier be
there?”
“Not just at the gala.” Hecate stood, her eyes following Persephone as she paced back and forth across the room. “It was targeting Devon.”
“What?” Persephone stopped abruptly and moved to Hecate. “How do you know this?” She grabbed her friend’s shoulders, but quickly dropped them and moved to the nearby window.
She crossed her arms across her chest as she waited for Hecate’s response. She shocked herself at the show of emotion but curbed her thoughts as she watched Hecate’s eyes return to normal, the pupils and whites coming back.
“Someone there knew about Devon and was trying to test his powers,” Hecate stated carefully. She paused, waiting for Persephone to grasp what this all meant, even though the statement was clear enough. She explained, “I felt a surge of his power building while at the table before it blew the top off outside, but there was residue of someone else there. I felt someone else’s power swirling with his. It didn’t feel like normal power, but like a spell. A booster spell someone put out with an intentional target. That target was Devon.”
“We’ve been careful on who all knows the situation…” Looking at the silver silence spell, she looked to Hecate. “You think someone here in the Underworld is the reason why?”
“I do not know, but I am not ruling it out. We both felt something at the river, something I recognize as the same signature as the amplifier at the gala. I have no idea if it’s just the whole power structure finding its new place with Devon, or if someone is working against us.”
“Well, that is just great. Not only are we at the mercy of the Moirai and their ominous predictions, but we have someone here working against us.” Persephone felt like screaming. She was in danger of losing control of her emotional state for the first time in centuries.
They both looked at each other. She knew what Hecate was about to say.
“Tristan, was he acting out of character?” Hecate asked, already knowing the answer.
Persephone turned from Hecate and threw the doors open with her powers, breaking the silence spell Hecate had cast.
The guards outside of the doors turned to her, she knew her eyes bled black as her soldiers readied themselves to carry out her orders.
“Bring me Tristan of Cocytus right now,” she growled. The guards did not hesitate as they
shifted into their shadow forms to retrieve the river deity.
She noticed a Reevka stood near the front doors, waiting to open it for whoever was on the other side.
She knew who the Reevka waited for.
Persephone made her way to the door for another much-needed talk.
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