Page 91 of Sett and his King
“The loops. Spiti has been looping time in order to save you,” Yaya replied.
Gene bit his lip and slowly nodded.
“Now it makes sense. I…I thought I was going crazy.”
“But how did you feel it? You haven’t been at home. You shouldn’t have felt it,” Yaya said.
Gene closed his eyes and rubbed his chest.
“I don’t know.”
Yaya put her arm around Gene and led him up the stairs.
“It’s okay, my boy. Come on. Let’s get you all warm and clean. And you,” she turned to me at the top of the stairs. “If you're going to rescue my grandson you need to be better prepared."
I wanted to defy her. I wanted to open the door and go back out there, to him, to my soulmate.
But going against Yaya Penelope right now might be a fate worse than death so I followed her into the kitchen where she proceeded to feed and water the young men. They ate and she cleaned up their faces with a wet towel.
"Now," she said. "Going back in there is a suicide mission. My Andreas is very strong. He will freeze you before hello."
I nodded. "It's why I hesitate to go back," I explained. If it weren't for Drew's power, I would go back in a heartbeat.
"We need to find a way to liberate him before you go in to rescue him. But how? Everyone will be susceptible to Horus's mind control."
Gene looked from one to the other all confused. "Don't you just have to wait for Drew to run out of breath?"
Yaya chuckled. "Your brother has grown a lot stronger, Evgenie," she said and patted his hand.
"What? How?"
Yaya looked at me and so did Gene but before I could say anything she spoke. "I have a feeling you'll find out soon enough." She glanced from Gene to Anubis and I bit back a smirk.
It was good to know I hadn't been the only one to notice the attraction between the two. Even if Anubis's head was still a mess, Gene seemed to anchor him, and Gene couldn't stop sneaking glances at my son.
"I'm so confused," Gene sighed.
"Don't you worry about that now. Let the adults talk."
"I am an adult, Yaya!"
"Shhh. What did I say?"
Gene frowned and bowed his head over the stew, clearly not in any capacity to go against his grandmother.
"So? Sett, Anubis? You're gods. You must have ideas."
Anubis looked down and focused on his food, leaving me to take the brunt of Yaya's attention.
"If there was enough sand around, I could free him a hundred times over. But that house is as clean as it gets."
Yaya grimaced. "Sand? What sand?"
"Father is a master of sand magic. His sand can clear the mind but he can only work with what he's got."
Yaya gasped. "All this time, sand was all you needed? Why the hell didn't you ask?"
I pulled back with a frown. "What do you mean?"
