[This post is from Cameron’s point of view.]
“The stories say that he arose from an Otherworld that got closed off pretty early—the stories don’t say why, but they’re very clear that he and his brethren were cut off from wherever the hell they came from. Their territory was pretty small all those centuries ago, when most of them still walked the lands. Leviathan—Yam Leviathan, to be proper—claimed the waters for his own back then, the rivers and the seas of the Levant.
“He ruled them with an iron fist. A power that controls water in a desert isn’t one to be trifled with, either.”
Cameron’s brows knit. “But someone must have.”
“As they always do,” Lara said. She gulped down some tea and leaned back, closing her eyes. “He was not without either rivals or ambition and we both know the ruin that can lead to.” She exhaled. “But he was supposed to be dead. They did manage to kill him back then—Yaweh’s followers, Elohim’s brood.”
“Thordin was supposed to be dead, too,” Cameron said quietly. “But he’s as alive as you and I are.”
Lara’s eyes snapped open. “Odinson?”
“The same,” he said, then smiled faintly. “I think everyone’s starting to wonder if death isn’t actually permanent anymore.”
A shiver wracked Lara. “I pray that it still is in most cases,” she admitted. “There are too many things out there that once were dead that I think we’d all like to see stay gone.”
Cameron shot her a crooked smile. “I’m going to take your word on that one.”
A little laugh escaped her and she nodded. “That’s probably wise.” She stared into her mug for a few moments before she sighed. “Do you think we’ll escape his notice?”
“You’ve escaped everyone else so far, right?”
“More or less,” Lara said. “I’m waiting for the day that the Hecate shows up. Gods and powers know that she probably will at some point, given our relationship with your group and your connection to the Taliesin and the Aes Dana.”
“Maybe, maybe not,” Cameron rubbed at his temple. Was it his imagination, or did he feel a headache coming on? “She hit us a few weeks back.” A few weeks? More than a month now, closer to two. “She took Thom’s brother-in-law and no one’s seen or heard from her since.”
