174. Lorenzo Mi first instinct when I saw someone take Athena's belongings was to rush forward and take it back but Athena held me back. I looked at her and she had this subtle, almost indiscernible smile on her lips as if she knew what would happen. The pendant reacted violently in the other woman's hands, crackling with white sparks of fire. The woman gasped and flung it away, the chain and the pendant clattered on the floor before the flames vanished as if they had never existed. It was rejecting her touch. "What the hell?" Raven shrieked, her eyes bulging so wide I half-expected them to pop right out of their sockets. Athena stirred in my arms at the sound of Raven’s voice, her warmth suddenly slipping away as she pushed herself up and stepped toward the pendant. The air around me

