Everyone stayed quiet for a while, thinking. Until finally, Tony broke the silence. “Okay, so we don’t have any good solutions yet. We need time to think it over.” Hayley nodded. “We can always decide that we aren’t all going to be able to work together later. But we won’t be able to take back any rash decisions now. We can discuss it again after we deal with the current crisis, alright?” I didn’t have a problem with that. I wasn’t ready to deal with the thing with Luca, and we still had the House of Hercules to worry about. We still had a potential conflict with the Hercules brewing. And we still had to— Wait. I’d almost forgotten. “I’m okay with shelving the topic for now,” I said. “But we have another problem that you guys need to be aware of.” “Yeah,” Carter said in a tone of voice

