Hades watches.

Of all the gods, he is the safest from this game. His brothers thought that banishing him to the Underworld was a punishment, and maybe for the last three millennia, it was. But now that the gods' hold on the earth is tenuous at best – now, the Underworld is both source of the danger and the safest from it all at the same time.

So the chaos going on aboveground does not draw his attention at all. The only reason he pays any attention is because of Bianca and Nico.

As all of it comes to a head, he freed his children from the clutches of the Lotus Casino. Whatever happens to them is on his head, he knows this.

And yet, the chance to control the game is too good to pass up. All he needs is for the child of Poseidon to die – anyone who has eyes can see that Zeus' daughter will do anything she can to get away from the threat hanging over her head. If she is anything like Zeus, she will succeed.

So he watches, and he waits. He will make sure that his brother's son will die if it comes to that. The game is his chance to return to his rightful place in Olympus, and he will be damned to Tartarus before he loses it.


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