Seoras continues repeatedly cutting Stark because he has to keep him on the cusp between life and death in order for Stark to stay in the Otherworld. Meanwhile, Sgiach suggests that Aphrodite do something to actually help Stark, but Aphrodite says that she doesn’t know what to do. But she and Darius go into their bedroom so Aphrodite can continue not knowing what to do, but in privacy.
Aphrodite and Darius have a conversation about how she’s a bitch, but Darius loves her anyway, and it’s legitimately kind of nice. Then Aphrodite lies on the bed so she can say a prayer. You know, one of those prayers where you just bluntly ask for what you want and then Nyx shows up right in front of your face to grant all your wishes and solve all your problems leading all of us to wonder why you didn’t just do that earlier?
So she does that and Nyx magically whisks her away to see the Otherworld, where Heath is trying to make Zoey feel better. Aphrodite tries to talk to them, but they can’t see or hear her.
“Great. I’m Christmas Carol-ing like the damn ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and whatever. They can’t hear a fucking word I’m saying!”
It’s future. There was literally one other option for what the other ghost could be, but good try, anyway.
Zoey and Heath then talk about how Zoey needs to pull her soul back together so that they can both live together forever in the Otherworld.
“Okay, I don’t understand. Z pulls herself together, but she stays here with Heath instead of going back to her body?”
In this version of the future, yes.
Aphrodite thinks that as long as Zoey is happy, it’s fine, but Nyx explains that if Zoey chooses to stay the entire fate of the earth will change. Then she shows Aphrodite a vision of Neferet burning the earth and drinking Kalona’s blood. Then Stevie Rae shows up with Rephaim and an “Indian kid” who is clearly supposed to be, like, the human version of Rephaim, or something? But then human-Rephaim and Raven Mocker-Rephaim start fighting each other. I don’t really get it, but whatever.
The vision ends and Aphrodite wakes up.
“I have to talk to Stark. Now.”
I mean. Could you have not done this earlier? We have had an entire book during which Aphrodite could have gotten this information. It’s not like the information she got is even that helpful. If Zoey doesn’t come back to her body everything will be bad. Great. The entire reason anyone was going through this process was to bring Zoey back to her body, so I’m not sure how this helps?
So Seoras wakes Stark up, halting the difficult and incredibly dangerous process of sending him to the Otherworld so that Aphrodite can tell him something he already knew after she said a prayer that she could have said at any point prior to now. It’s like this book is trying to waste my time.
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