They are more powerful then all the gods. They can freeze us in time, Chaos sometimes come and freezes us and torments us with her touch. We are much ...ore durable then mortals and her touch cannot kill us. However as powerful as we are no god in existence has ever been able to refuse to obey an 'Order' from Chaos," Nyx answered staring and Ethan, again with a look he couldn't decipher. "I wish he hadn't," Aphrodite said mournfully with a sad look in her eyes. "Why," Lily asked and Aphrodite. Drill?”She nodded. “Exactly. I just finished my last assay. It confirms everything I’ve found so far.” Responding to a silent command, the facto that had been following her wheeled and turned as it brought its four upper limbs together, digits spreading like the petals of a lotus. A projected image sprang up between us, a familiar Ship rendering of Old Sol in logarithmic scale: the four inner planets huddled closely around the warmth of a yellow star, the cooler gas giants orbiting distant and. " Why? What's there?" they all asked."It's a surprise, but well worth your time," Michael answered and no amount of persuasion could coax any more information from him.Michael got an excuse to go to the bathroom 5 minutes before class ended and headed to Marie's apartment. He hid behind the shrubbery that was around the courtyard. It concealed him from view but he had a clear line of sight to Marie's front door. At several minutes before 3:00 he saw the four nerds enter the courtyard and head. “When you left Ridgehill so soon after aiding me and the others, did you do so in order to save Ridgehill?”Blinking at her question he answered, “No, we got hired to escort Fred Copper’s wife and daughter from the Alea region to Ridgehill.”The mission had truly gone off script, ending with a fight with a dragon. Fred’s wife even ended up being used as a living flame shield by Axel when fighting off a Coalition bandit mage. He struggled not to judge Axel’s brutal choice.“Exactly, and yet you.