"Master?" James smiles at me and shakes his head. "You'll find out who he is soon enough Damien, no hard feelings, but you need to come with me." He e...tends his hand to me. "Like hell I will." I lunge for his hand and he's gone, I fall but roll back to my feet, keeping my weight center. I listen for him and get a split second warning before he attacks me, hitting my jaw, he grabs the front of my shirt, hanging me in the air. I see Selene and another Daemon holding her, his claws at her throat.. But I didn't even know if she'd come back to school. The last I heard she was still an amateur, but that didn't mean she was still at UK.If she wasn't at the stadium I hoped she was watching on TV. If she saw it, she knew what I meant when I tugged on my ear as I left the Commonwealth Stadium field for the last time. It was our signal that I loved her and I was thinking of her.Between classes and practices, the fall went by like a blur. It seemed like only yesterday that I was in Tempe, Ariz.,. I opened the door, keeping my legs and lowerpart of my body behind the door and peering around. Mr.Brady wasstanding there with a quizzical look on his face and a little smile.***Tommy opened the door a bit and said, "Hi, can I help you?" Jack said"Yeah, I need to borrow your Dad's drill and he said I could come overfor it." Tommy said, "I don't know where it is, maybe you should comeback when he's here." Jack said, "Oh, it's okay, I know where he keepsthings in his workroom."Jack pushed. Someone else is the Pythia right now. He has me poking around these last few years, learning what I can." Have you been back?" I asked, referring to Illios."I don't think I could bear it. Have you?" I saw it from a ship. There is a new city growing there." City." Her eyes went blank for a moment. "The place for the new city is Byzantos, not Illios," she said in the language of Illios. "It will be a new Rome and will sit by the Golden Horn." She gave me a quick smile. "That happens," she said,.