••••••••••• Athena ••••••••••• “I don’t understand,” I tell my father after he tells me he needs a vial of my blood. Clio told Valerio and me last night that she and Amara were going away for the weekend, and just as I was celebrating, a phone call came through that ruined everything. My father called, saying he was attending a nearby function and would drop in to check up on me since he and mother haven’t seen me in three months. My mood immediately dropped because I knew it wasn’t just a routine check-up, and now he’s confirmed it. He came here to get a vial of my blood. He says Stormweaver needs it. I ask him why, and he says he was supposed to monitor my pregnancy but couldn’t because Valerio wouldn’t let me leave, so now that my due date is so close, he wants to do a spell to mak

