Redana is leaping, halting herself on one foot after Hades’ shove, springing forward with no plan other than to help. Dyssia is rising, hovering, coiling the length of her tail in a perimeter around the group, that no enemy could lay hands on them faster than she. Bella is staring, eyes widening, a truth dawning.

Dolce looks.

Hades, bleeding, lost. Persephone, armed, steady. Aphrodite. Aphrodite. Aphrodite. Cursing. Screaming. One-armed. Smokeless. Distracted.

Dolce.

Dolce looks.