The True Target

I heard chains rattling, and I spun around. I half expected to see Thalia returning to life and wanting revenge on her killer and everyone else who wronged her. But it was Lyra, working with her bare hands to get the chains off Thalia's limbs.

As a descendant of the Goddess, I expected she would respect the dead, but I had never seen her so bothered.

Thalia's arm hung over the side of the rocks,