Hound of Hades #2 by Lucy Coats

Author:Lucy Coats
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group, USA
Published: 2014-12-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

THE BOY WITH THE LYRE

Demon was worried about leaving Cerberus by himself, but the box assured him that the Guardian of the Underworld would come to no harm.

“What if Hades comes out and sees him like this?” Demon asked, hesitating.

“Then you’re better off not here, aren’t you?” said the box in its metallic voice. “Now HURRY UP. Like Orpheus said, the clock is ticking, and you only have the rest of the day to find my ingredients.”

A few moments later, Demon walked through the silver gates, closing them gently behind him with a last look back at his enormous beast dog patient, who hadn’t so much as twitched a claw since having the potion. The box came flying up behind Demon, and together they met the ghostly figure pacing impatiently amid the white flowers. The red-eyed silver skulls on top of the palace swiveled to watch the two of them walk out onto the plain and then turned away.

Now Demon was truly in the land of the dead. He checked his body to see if it was still solid and human. Luckily it was. Then he took a deep breath and got a good look around for the first time. The dim twilight covered the landscape, making everything soft and blurred, as if it were not quite real. The sky (if it was a sky) had no clouds, stars, nor moon, but glowed eerie green as far as the eye could see. There were no birds overhead, only ghostly bats. The white flowers covered the ground like a carpet.

“How did you know I was here?” he burst out. He was really longing to know whether Orpheus could still play the lyre in his present form, but hesitated to ask. He’d never had a conversation with a ghost before, and he didn’t want to say the wrong thing.

“Hermes said you were down here and might need a bit of assistance. Though I’m not sure how I can help, really.”

Demon sent a barrowload of thankful thoughts in Hermes’s direction. “Well, I can think of one thing right away,” he said. Never mind politeness. “Does your lyre still work?”

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