Chapter Fourteen
I DIDN’T FEEL ANY LESS lost by the time I reached the lab. Back when the House of Hercules had been trying to assassinate us, back when we’d been faced with the potential for war with the surrounding legend communities, the stakes had felt impossibly high. I thought I knew what it felt like to be in the heart of a legend’s power base and unable to do anything about it.
But what the House of Anna was capable of went beyond anything I’d ever heard of. We’d known about legendary houses for centuries. We’d known about legend-like people for much longer—people claiming to be those ancient heroes themselves.
I had a very smackdab understanding of legends the world over, what with America being a multicultural society that included some legends (who still probably kept plenty
