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Seeing all the cliques grouped according to ancestral god makes<br />

me wonder about Nicole. Seems like she doesn’t hang out with any-<br />

one but herself—and now me. But she’s part immortal, too.<br />

“So, which god are you—”<br />

She suddenly jerks me across the hall toward an open door,<br />

almost sending me sprawling on the floor.<br />

“What the—”<br />

“The Hades harem,” she explains. “You do not want to mess with<br />

them.”<br />

And, peeking back out the doorway, boy can I see why.<br />

The group just rounding the corner look like your average<br />

Goths—black hair, black clothes, black eyeliner—but with an edge.<br />

Pretty fitting for the god of the underworld’s descendants.<br />

Shoulder-to-shoulder, they stride down the hall, daring anyone<br />

to get in their way. The Zeus set stares them down, but most of the<br />

other students in the hall scamper out of their path. As they pass<br />

the doorway, a tall, thin girl with pale skin, shoulder-length black<br />

hair, and piercing pale blue eyes, stares at me with intimidating<br />

intensity. I know I must be a novelty and all, but she really doesn’t<br />

need to look like she wants to melt me with her eyes.<br />

“Who is that?” I ask, my voice barely a whisper.<br />

“That,” she says, grabbing my shoulder and dragging me into the<br />

classroom, “is Kassandra. Trouble on a cosmic scale.”<br />

I don’t need her warning to know that.<br />

“This is Cornball’s class,” she says, flopping into a desk in the<br />

last row. “Make it through this and it’s all downhill until lunch.”<br />

“Great,” I say, dragging my fascinated thoughts back from Kas-<br />

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