If I tried to come with you, your tiny chance of escape would be no chance at all. But I suppose I could stand it, if you wanted to try.”
“Well…I’m not saying it would be fun having you along, always complaining and glaring at me and stuff. Then he looked at all the supplies she’d stacked up-easily enough for two people for several days. He wasn’t sure if she was annoyed that he was still here, or wistful that she wasn’t leaving too. If I can wire this thing up to the boat, I should be able to navigate back to the world.” Looking at her, Leo felt a tugging in his stomach that he couldn’t quite explain. Her hands were calloused and blistered from working with rope. Her cinnamon-toast hair was tied back, which made her almond eyes look even larger and more startling. Her T-shirt was covered with grass and dirt stains, like she’d just run through a swirling Gaea. In the blue jeans, she didn’t look much like a goddess. When he asked her about the wardrobe change, she claimed she had realized how practical these clothes were after making some for Leo. She was dressed for work in a pair of jeans and a grubby white T-shirt. “If I didn’t know better, I’d think you were anxious to get rid of me.” He looked up from the circuit board that was slowly coming together. She got so much done that by the second day she asked Leo if he needed any help with his own project. She wove a sail big enough for a small yacht and made enough rope for all the rigging.
Within a day, she’d gathered enough supplies for a weeklong voyage-food, flasks of water, herbal medicines from her garden. When Calypso set her mind to something, she was a machine. “Your friends must need you, or else Gaea would not ask for your death.” Are you crazy?”Ĭalypso’s eyes smoldered with anger, but for once Leo didn’t think the anger was aimed at him. “Uh, don’t take this the wrong way, but you didn’t kill me. The wind ripped Gaea’s form into nothingness, scattering the sand into the blue sky. “This is not just my prison, Grandmother. Why wouldn’t she? Gaea was making her the ultimate deal-kill one annoying guy, get a handsome one free!Ĭalypso thrust her hand toward Gaea in a three-fingered gesture Leo recognized from Camp Half-Blood: the Ancient Greek ward against evil. He was positive Calypso would strangle him on the spot, or order her invisible wind servants to chop him into a Leo purée. Several scenarios went through Leo’s head-none of them good. He will be yours to punish or to love, as you choose. Would you still have the demigod Percy Jackson? I will spare him for you. Spill his blood upon the earth, and help me to wake. You do not have to be here when that happens, Gaea promised. “Ogygia destroyed?” Calypso shook her head, as if she couldn’t imagine those two words going together. When I remake the world, this prison will be destroyed as well. But do not think it will pass you by on Ogygia.
“If you are so concerned with my fate, why do you visit me only now?” “Where were you these last three thousand years?” Calypso asked. Why do you hesitate now? I offer you a chance that Zeus would never give you. You knew that the gods must be destroyed. Why do you hold out hope? You supported your father, Atlas, in his great war. Calypso stared straight through the swirling face of Gaea, all the way to the horizon.
0 kommentar(er)
