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glow.
    The young man’s eyes grew wide, and Athena was shocked when she saw tears actually coming from them. “You’re like me?” he said. “You’re like me!” he cried out.
    Athena wasn’t sure what to do. “Yes, it seems that way.” She looked around her at the destroyed buildings that lay as far as the eye could see. “What happened here?”
    The young man wiped his face. “I destroyed everything,” he said. “I killed everyone. It got out of hand, I couldn’t stop myself. They all wanted me to die but they couldn’t stop me. I…I didn’t know what to do,” the young man said, fighting the tears. “I’ve been so lonely. I’ve been so lonely.”
    Athena took a step forward, a motherly instinct she didn’t know she had rising up within her. She placed a hand on the young man’s shoulder. “Shhh, it’ll be alright,” she said, comforting.
    “I thought I was going to be alone forever. There was never anybody else like me. Never anybody to stop me. But now you’re here. Now I’m not alone,” he said looking up at Athena, wiping a trail of snot from his nose.
    Athena nodded. “Yes, I’m here now. What is your name?”
    The young man turned his head away, as if Athena had asked a shameful question. She began to wonder if maybe it was a taboo question in the future.
    “I used to go by Richter, but you can just call me Patrick,” he said.
    Athena held out her hand. “It’s nice to meet you Patrick. I’m Athena.”

16

Strange Conversations
    I finished unloading my clothes from my suitcase. After agreeing to help the British, Selena and I flew back to Texas to get everybody’s luggage. We would’ve brought it in the first place, but our hands were a bit full seeing as we had to get three people over the ocean who couldn’t fly.
    I shut my drawer, and looked around. The room was identical to the one I spent the night in the last time Selena and I paid our friends an overnight visit. The walls were plain, and there sat a bed in one corner, and desk in the other, a clothes dresser, and a door that led to the bathroom.
    I went to the bathroom and got out my toothbrush and toothpaste, setting them on the counter. I looked at myself in the mirror. Despite the fact that I looked fine thanks to my healing abilities, they did nothing to help ease my mind. I felt tired and stressed, like a heavy cloud was sitting on top of my head. I looked down at my toothbrush, thinking about what it signified. It meant I was unpacked. I’d moved into this new home. It meant we were going to be staying in London for quite some time.
    And I highly doubted we were going to find Samantha in London.
    “Don’t worry, I’ve got my eye on her,” a voice behind me said, causing me to nearly jump out of my skin.
    I looked up and saw no-one in the mirror. I turned around, and standing in front of the door, was Athena. “What are you doing here?” I asked. I looked at her and back at the mirror. Her reflection still hadn’t appeared. “Are you a vampire or something?”
    Athena let out a beautiful, warm laugh. The kind that made me feel proud, as if I’d just told my parent a joke that I came up with, and they were genuinely laughing at it. “No, Kane, of course not,” she said. Her tan skin was flawless. I began to wonder how old she was. She looked like she couldn’t have been any older than forty.
    “How come you’re not in the mirror?” I asked.
    “It’s taking quite a lot out of me to appear to you in a vision like this. I can’t waste unnecessary strength by making sure I show up in a reflection,” she said with a chuckle.
    “So this is all in my head?” I asked.
    “Yes, I’m appearing in your mind. I could hear that you were thinking about Samantha. Don’t worry, I’ve got an eye on her. She’s fine,” Athena said. I could tell she knew more than she was letting on, but I also knew that there was no way she was telling me what that was.
    “Well, we’re in London like you asked. What now?”