Titans by Kate O'Hearn

Author:Kate O'Hearn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

“That’s impossible!” Astraea started to pace. “I just saw my mother. It couldn’t have been her being taken through the Solar Stream.”

“I’m sorry,” Jake said softly. “But we saw a woman with big white wings. Her head was covered, but Tryn recognized her voice and her wings. He’s certain it was your mother.”

“It was her,” Tryn insisted. “I met her and your father when I first arrived here. It was at your grandfather’s house. Hyperion is the one who arranged for me to come to Arcadia. I’m certain it was your mother being taken through the Solar Stream. A short time later, others in cloaks returned. They walked past the door where we were hiding, and when they did, this fell.” Tryn held up a long white feather.

Astraea took the feather and frowned. It was a primary flight feather. These were the hardest to grow out. “I always know when my mother is going through a molt—especially flight feathers. But she isn’t going through one now.”

“Maybe they hurt her feathers when they tackled her,” Zephyr suggested.

Astraea inspected the feather and then sniffed it. She frowned. “This isn’t hers. My mother always perfumes her wings, but this doesn’t even smell like a feather. It doesn’t feel like one either.” She looked back at Tryn. “That wasn’t my mother you saw.”

“It was,” Tryn insisted. “At least it was your mother who was forced through the Solar Stream. Perhaps it wasn’t her who came back.”

“That doesn’t make sense. Who else could it be?” Zephyr asked. “There aren’t that many winged Titans.”

Astraea was shaking her head. “If it really was my mother, what about my father? Where is he?”

“There were two being taken through. I wouldn’t be surprised if the other was your father,” Tryn said.

“Why?” Astraea cried.

“I don’t know,” Tryn acknowledged. “But what I saw last night is going to haunt me for the rest of my life. Those creatures in cloaks—they had pale grayish skin that looked like it was melting. You could barely see their eyes because of the folds of skin over them. They didn’t have noses, and they could open their mouths really wide. They were eating those flat, dried animals whole.”

Jake nodded. “They were going through them like they were chocolate chips. I couldn’t see them, but I could hear them. It was disgusting.”

Astraea shook her head. “But if there were creatures like that here, I’m sure we would have seen them already. Or at least I would have in the new prison wing. But there was nothing like the things you described.”

“We know what we saw,” Tryn said. “Those things weren’t Titans or Olympians. But judging by all the food they have stored down there, they’ve been here for a while.”

“Tell them about the guy we heard talking,” Jake suggested.

Tryn nodded. “All but one of them spoke in a language we couldn’t understand. But there was one we could. We didn’t see his face, but by the way he spoke, he sounded exactly like a Titan. When

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