“I’m not your judge,” said Danny. “I’m not anybody’s judge.”

“You’re everybody’s judge,” said Hermia. “People with power are always judges, deciding whom to treat well and whom to ignore. And this power—gating without gates…”

“Moving myself and others without using my outself,” said Danny. “I don’t know if I was meant to end up with this power, or if it’s just something that comes with katabasis.”

“She really died?” asked Hermia.

Danny held up his hand and looked at it somberly. “Out, damned spot,” he said softly.

“Set used your own hand to kill her?”

“It’s the only hand he had the use of,” said Danny. “So, yes.”

“You remember killing her.”

Danny nodded. “And I remember my own choice to let her finish dying and stay dead.”

“So you could follow her to Duat,” said Hermia.

“It was my plan,” said Pat.

“What made you think it would even work?” Hermia asked her.

“Persephone,” said Pat. “Isis. Eurydice.”

Hermia could hardly believe that was all Pat had to go on. “Ancient lies, long since augmented and altered and…”

“She took an extravagant chance,” said Veevee, “and laid her own life on the line. What did you do?”

“I caved in at the first opportunity,” said Hermia. “So toss me off the balcony into the Gulf.”

“The Gulf isn’t directly below the balcony, and you don’t deserve a soft landing,” said Veevee.

“Nobody’s dropping anybody off of anything,” said Danny. “All I have right now is that Pat can move herself around at will, and I can move myself and others, all without taking any of my gates back from Loki. I can’t teach this to anybody who hasn’t died and come back. I have no idea how to turn this into anything.”

“Maybe you can’t,” said Hermia. “And in the meantime, where’s Set?”

Danny patted his chest.

“You mean he’s still in you?” asked Hermia.

“Where else?” asked Pat. “Where would Set go if Danny let him loose?”

“You mean you’re holding him prisoner?” asked Hermia.

“I don’t think so,” said Danny. “I asked him not to leave me, and he stayed.”

“So he could jump from you into any of us,” said Hermia.

“Why would he?” asked Veevee. “Danny has powers that no one has ever had. Set probably thinks he can take back control whenever he wants.”

“Maybe he does,” said Danny, “but I don’t think he’s that stupid.”

“I think he really can’t go anywhere,” said Pat. “You should have heard Danny when he ‘asked’ Set not to go. Danny has authority now. No, he has Authority. Capital A. Or maybe it’s AUTHORITY—all caps.”

“Like drunk people texting?” asked Hermia.

“The shift button doesn’t activate because your blood alcohol level reaches a certain threshold,” said Veevee.