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When I arrive at Themis’s office, Hepa is leaving. This is the second time we’ve run into each other here. Weird.
I haven’t really seen her much lately; she’s been cloistered with the other healers, working on their secret project. Not so secret now—it was obviously the fog that outed all the Moggies.
“Hepa,” I say when she tries to walk by me. I grab her wrist and she spins back to me, looking…ashamed.
“I didn’t want to do it,” she tells me. “I hate all this Nazi bullshit. I just…I have to stay on Metis’s good side.” Metis is the goddess in charge of the healing arts, mother to Athena and, weirdly, Zee’s ex-wife. The family tree of the Greek gods is incredibly complicated, and terribly violent. A healer who wants to do well after the Academy will need Metis on her side.
“I understa
