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far, but I’m guessing that the rest of the pantheon exists,
too.”
    “Oh, man.” Nick raised the bottle,
pressing the sweating side to his forehead. “I was not expecting to walk into
Narnia when I came down here.”
    “It’s not Narnia,” Ian said, taking a
drink of his own beer. “More like the Iliad .”
    “Oh, even
better. A ten-year war, just what we all need. ”
    “I’m hoping it won’t take ten years.”
    Before Nick could ask what the hell he
meant, Bythos came back into the kitchen. The demigod, he’s a demigod looked tired. “Aidan’s resting peacefully
enough,” he said, heading to the refrigerator and pulling out a beer. “Are you
sure you want him in your room, Nick? He said he’d be happy to sleep on the
couch.”
    His name’s
Aidan? “He probably lost a fair amount of blood, and he’s exhausted. I want him to get
some rest,” Nick said. “He can survive for a while on land, right?”
    “For a couple of days, yes,” Bythos
said, taking the seat next to Ian. “But it would be best if he could get into
the water tomorrow. It’ll help the wound heal faster.”
    “Fine. I wanted to go
swimming anyway.”
    Auburn eyebrows rose at that. “You’re
going to swim with him?”
    “Well, I’m not letting him go in by
himself. Even if he heals quickly he’s still going to have some muscle weakness
in that leg—" Nick waved a hand. “Tail side, whatever. I want to make sure he doesn’t cramp up or drown.” He winced. “Shit. Okay, that
was stupid.”
    “No, it was very thoughtful,” Bythos
said. “I know this all takes a bit of getting used to.”
    “That’s an understatement,” Nick
muttered. “I don’t suppose I could ask you to prove the god thing.”
    Bythos reached a hand out. From nowhere,
a huge, beautifully worked silver trident appeared in his grip. “I could go
down to the water and shape shift, if you like,” he said, “but it’s still
pouring out there and I don’t think you want to get soaked right now.”
    “Uh, no,” Nick said faintly, staring at
the trident. “No, that’s good enough.”
    Aphros joined them, wiping his hands on
a towel. He frowned at the trident. “Showing off, brother
mine?”
    “Just proving a
point. Our physician here wanted to see a demonstration.”
    “He already did. Where do you think
those bolt cutters came from?”
    Nick boggled at the other twin. “I
thought you got them from the garage.”
    Aphros shook his head. “I got them from
a manufacturer’s warehouse. It’s much easier to fetch existing things than it
is to make them from whole cloth, so to speak.”
    “Wait, you can bring things to you? Without anyone knowing about it?”
    “Easily. Why?”
    “I can’t carry drugs on me for
malpractice reasons. But I’d really like to put—Aidan?” Nick waited for
Bythos’s nod. “Aidan on a saline IV to replace fluids, plus give him a tetanus and antibiotics shot, and maybe some morphine. If
I tell you what to look for, can you get them from a hospital?”
    The twins glanced at each other. “Should
be simple enough,” Aphros said. “Can the merfolk take human medicines, though?”
    “I don’t know,” Bythos admitted. “But
the saline IV is a good idea.” He turned to Nick. “Tell Aph what exactly you
want and where he’d be likely to find it at a hospital. I’ll check with an
expert to see if you can give our guest human medicine.”
    “Who are you going to ask?” A sudden
thrill went through Nick. “Oh, my God. Are you going
to talk to Asclepius? Or Apollo?”
    The demigod sighed. “We should be that
lucky.”
    ****
    “This had better be good. I was watching Sharknado ,” Chiron growled. The
centaur’s muscled arms were folded across his bare chest, and he glared at
everyone in the living room.
    Nick felt like he was being grilled by
the worst of his med school professors again, but no one else seemed impressed
by the glowing, semi-transparent centaur in the living room. “It’ll be on
again,”