The Legend of the Solstice (Modern Mythos Book 1) by Lauren Evers

Author:Lauren Evers [Evers, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter seventeen

If this was a fight, Ridley reasoned, then they needed numbers. All they needed to do was find others like them. Fortunately, they knew there were others, but finding them was easier said than done.

They were searching worldwide for individuals born twenty years ago on the winter solstice. Alexei had access to public records with whatever suspicious database he used, but it was a massive undertaking. There were patterns, of course—for instance, all of them were born exactly at midnight, which impacted some dates. If, for example, one was born on the 21st in the far east, it would be considered the 22nd of December in that region when the final child was born in the west, on the midnight of the 21st. But, while that gave them a time and date, there were still thousands of births.

They searched for children who went to foster care, children who were adopted, looking for places where a baby “conceived” and born in under a minute might end up, but there were just too many people to sift through. Contact information wasn’t left on many of the slips, so beyond just searching for them, they needed to track them down, too, and they couldn’t do that for each case.

It was Dimitri who apparently raised the point to Alexei that they had abilities normal people did not, so they looked into that next. There were unnatural storms in the United States and volcanic eruptions in dormant volcanoes in India, most of these as inexplicable as the tsunami in Norway, but Ridley wasn’t certain that was enough to warrant a trip; there were storms and fires and eruptions, yes, but they’d ended days ago and hadn’t started back up since. They also seemed to change position; they were inconsistent and without pattern, almost as if they were moving, or had been moving. Things had been quiet for the past few days now.

The task was beginning to feel impossible. The Titans, evil as they were, were much better at tracking and finding one another.

As minutes of failure turned to hours, Ridley’s thoughts went dark. Deep down, she knew. She knew that she and Alexei and Dimitri were going to be picked off one by one. They would be killed just like her mother. Aphrodite had said they could shield themselves, but Prometheus still visited Ridley in her dream. He’d gotten through. What was to say he couldn’t do it again, or that he couldn’t do it when she was awake?

According to him, the only reason the Titans hadn’t already killed them was because of their lack of memory. Prometheus wanted to attack when the Olympians were at their strongest, so the defeat would be sweeter, but he was only one of the Titans. In her dream he mentioned there being others who wanted to fight now, some who weren’t interested in waiting. If he wasn’t lying, that meant they were in danger.

Ridley wanted to live, but she didn’t want to live in fear. So if she could talk to any Titan, any Titan at all, she would tell him to come and pick her off.

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