“Yeah. Future me. Apparently, centuries from now, after I get pimp-slapped with a Dark-Hunter bow on my face—really wish Artemis had chosen a better location on my body to mark me with that—and I’m on the brink of morphing into the full soulless Malachai who’s bent on binge-punishing humanity, I eat a demon that has time-traveling abilities. Sad to say, they don’t last long, and I just used the last of it to come here and tell me to get the Eye, and use it to reset whatever it is we screwed up.” He glanced to Kody. “So what is this thing and where is it?”

Giddy with excitement, Simi raised her hand. “Ooo, ooo, ooo, the Simi finally knows an answer! It in that scary, scary room, in that scary temple in the lowest level of Hades’s domain. Least it used to be and I doubts anybody’s moved it ’cause that ugly, snarly dogs thing with all them heads gets really nasty whenever someone goes down there. And them dragons and snake-headed people not real happy ’bout it neither.”

Kody nodded. “Uh, yeah, that would be correct. Cerberus and the gorgons can be a little territorial whenever someone ventures into Tartarus to disturb it.”

It was her turn to be gaped at.

“What?” She blinked innocently. “I played hide-and-seek there as a kid. Uncle Hades holds great Halloween parties. But … I can’t exactly go waltzing in there right now as no one knows who I am, since I won’t be born for another few hundred years.”

Menyara sighed. “I’m definitely not welcomed there. During my tenure as the Egyptian goddess Ma’at, my pantheon was at war with the Olympians. They would know the instant I stepped foot in their realm, and attack me full-on.”

Xev crossed his arms over his chest. “The one thing my childhood taught me was how to hide my powers and pass through realms where I wasn’t wanted. It was how I was able to visit my wife undetected beneath the noses of the Sephirii, who were well trained to hunt and kill my kind.”

He locked gazes with Kody. “While I know what it is, I don’t know what it looks like. If someone can tell me what I’m looking for and where it’s located, I can retrieve it.”

Menyara scoffed at his offer. “It’s not that simple. Only a god of fate can touch it without being destroyed by it.”

Kody chewed her lip. “I share your bloodline through my mother. Can I touch it?”

“Given your father’s blood, I don’t know. Especially since he once shared a womb with Acheron. You’re also no longer in your true body.… I have no idea what would happen to you should you touch it. It’s not worth the chance of finding out.”