I Spy Sea Green Eyes

Chapter 39

"Anything else that I gotta do?" I asked as I popped my head inside Tritannus' office. "I'm all done, I was just gonna go."

"No," Tritannus said. "Now that the battle plans are finalized, all we have to do is finalize alliance agreements, and then all we have to worry about is the Othrys banquet."

Yeah, that's all you have to worry about.

"Thank Chaos," I muttered absentmindedly. "I'm ready to drop right now." I got inside Tritannus' office, subconsciously closing the door with a soft click. "About the miracle cure..." I started. "I have absolutely no idea how to get it."

"Isn't it simple enough?" He said dryly, raising one eyebrow. "Find a gorgon. Kill it. Get its blood. Become a vampire and drink it."

"It isn't that simple," I sighed as I sat on the visitor's chair opposite Tritannus. "First of all, Medusa is dead. And so are Beano and Muriel, as far as I know."

"Beano and Muriel?" Tritannus asked, a swirling mix of incredulity and amusement in his sea green eyes. There was a small smile playing on his lips, reminiscent of that of his doppelganger.

"Sorry," I laughed nervously, my neck burning. "It's Stheno and Euryale. Beano and Muriel are just what helps me to remember that, heh."

"Well, Beano and Muriel are alive and selling mini weiners as we speak ," Tritannus said with a grin that to any other person, would have looked so foreign on the Supreme Commander of Othrys. But now that I knew who he was, it just seemed like second nature.

"If you gotta kill one of them, kill Beano," I joked. "Do the people here a favor." I was about to say more, but then I heard a familiar zoop sound of the portal wall.

Both of us were on our feet in an instant. "May be Kronos for another checkup," Tritannus said, directing a hasty glance at me. "You stay here, I'll deal with him. 'Claire Desjardins' isn't quite ready to be interrogated again." Before I could find my voice again, the door already swung closed.

Closing my eyes, I imagined myself as how I'd disguised myself during Kronos' first visit: curly blonde hair, gray eyes and visibly taller. Almost like Wise Girl, but not quite. I'd never be Wise Girl.

Opening my eyes, I saw Tritannus enter the room, visibly relaxed. He turned to look at me, and he slightly frowned, a change from the shocked expression he had when I had first changed.

"False alarm," He said sheepishly, but it turned out as more of a grimace. "Not Kronos. You can change back now." I walked out of Tritannus' office to see what it was, and I felt the height, fabulous hair and cool eyes go back to my usual self.

On the floor, near to where the portal wall usually opened up, there was a package with some sort of force field around it. An invisibility shield, I deduced. And a clever one at that. Whoever sent this package must have created the force field to be seen through by my eyes only.

"That's weird," I said. "The portal wall couldn't have opened for no apparent reason."

"But it did," Tritannus said, giving me a sideways glance. "Got any idea what happened?" I could feel his eyes on my, analyzing me with every step closer to me that he took.