-Sadie Kane-

I had ha-di another giant and Miss Know-It-All dealt another deathblow as I looked over to see the lioness was glaring at my uncle. "Who are you to hand orders, Kane? I can see past your act, you're desperate due to exhaustion." She looked ready to launch at him, but he kept his ground against her.

"I, Chief Lector Kane, summoned you to defend Geb," Amos snarled. "If you desire it, I will allow you to kill me after you succeed in your duty."

My eyes widened to the thought, recalling when he only lasted eleven seconds against her. "What?" I snapped, but they paid no attention to my alarm.

Sekhmet grinned, not about to pass on a chance to get blood. "You place a large amount of faith into my helping. The only one that placed that kind of responsibility on my shoulders was Ra," she purred. "I will help you, Kane covered in blood. But I will take you up on your offering as well." She must have been attracted to the red he was wearing in the first place to cause such a standoff.

"You will fight anyone that wishes harm on Geb and his host?" Amos didn't seem very trusting of her word, which only a fool would place trust in her to actually obey.

Sekhmet bowed to my uncle now, "Anything to taste the blood of the Eye of Set."

That seemed to earn his approval for a short second before he summoned another weak shield to stop another bolder from crushing them. I could feel the heat emanating from my face, pissed off by my uncle's choices during this fight. Pushes us to fight the giants, and then turns to a crazy cat to help protect Alyssa.

We are needed to kill the giants, Isis explained, otherwise we all die.

Amos is sacrificing himself to a bloodthirsty lion. I think I have a right to be pissed off. I snapped out of irritation as I slammed another ha-di spell at an incoming giant.

There is more to it than that. Amos shares Set's capability of deception. Isis tried to reassure, but I didn't let her words affect me as I focused on bring down the giant Annabeth was whacking at.