Arista stays silent. The guards break up up. Half staying with Artemis and me. The others exit the room with Apollo and Athena.

Standing, I strategy the guard curled in opposition to the bottom, “Need me to have a look? I am no Chiron however maybe I can stabilize it for when he can take care of you.”

Checking his waist, I checked for a belt.

Nothing.

Turning to a different guard, I lengthen my hand, I ask, “Might I take advantage of your belt?” My neck craned to see his face. He was not as tall as Apollo, however he was a lot taller than me.

The guard paled. Uncomfortably, he brushes his fingers by way of his hair. “What’re you going to do with it? Don’t you assume he has been by way of sufficient?”

I roll my eyes. “It is for a tourniquet. Except you favor him to bleed out on the ground,” I clarify. Nonetheless ready on the belt.

Skeptically he stares down at me after which over to the Moon Goddess who states, “Take heed to her orders.”

Nodding, He removes his belt, handing it over to me. “Thanks.”

The guard stays silent, now holding his pants up with one hand and wielding a weapon in one other.

Turning to the wounded guard, “Prepared?”

The person sits inclined. Not transferring.

“Artemis, assist me lay him on his again,” I ask, and he or she jumps up. Reaching for his shoulders we pull.

Jolting backwards, Artemis and I share a glance. The place there as soon as was a person is now an empty set of armor. Shadows unfold by way of the room because the armor plates clatter to the ground.

The inky black blood disappeared. I finger the dagger holstered in my leg chains, my hand reaching below the slit of my costume. Artemis thought this may be a terrific methodology of hiding a weapon. With a pinch of magic, I now have a hid weapon.

“What in Hades,” I whisper breathlessly because the darkness dissipates.

She pulls her bow out, surveying the world.

The place the guard stood, now solely inky black blood and his uniform lays on the bottom. His physique is gone.

Tossing the belt on to the guard I took it from, I murmur a due to him.

The belt falls to his ft as he watches his fallen comrade in horror.

“What sort of magic was that?” I ask.

“Shadow magic,” she whispers. “One of many darkest sorts in the entire courts.”

“Nice, and the supply of what occurred to him, is what they’re making an attempt to trace?” Following up her reply with one more query.

She nods solemnly, “Time to get comfortable. We shall be right here for some time.”

Artemis was proper. For hours we sat within the non-public eating room ready for the menace to be apprehended. Idly ready for them to return.

To cross the time, Artemis and I sit telling tales of our household. Peering out the home windows and listening on the doorways. To which the guards would request that we sit down for our security, however none pushed Artemis. She was not one to cross they usually knew it.

Apollo returns hours later coated in sweat and filled with frustration.

“How did it go?” requested Artemis with a depraved grin. “Regretting not taking the most effective archer of the court docket?”

“I had the most effective archer within the court docket with,” he scoffs as he bows earlier than giving her his cocky smile. “Yours really have been current in spite of everything. I doubt having the quantity two would have accomplished a lot to assist our case. He slipped into the shadows. The city’s guards are looking for him as we converse.”

Arista laughs, “Cocky little…” Her voice trails off.

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