Chapter 17 Sage
We had all been immersing ourselves in the Old Gods of Egypt looking for any clue on how to fully kill a void creature.
We hadn’t found anything, but we at least knew what they’d tried.
I knew Bastet had killed Apep a few times because cat beats snake.
Apep didn’t stay dead, so we hadn’t dragged Iman into it.
I figured she was safer with everyone just thinking she was someone’s familiar since she never shifted back.
Iman was always with Ivar, Ari, Alexios, and now Adrian, so she knew everything that was going on.
I knew she was some kind of prodigy genius, but that didn’t necessarily mean she knew the same things Khalid knew about the old gods.
She hadn’t exactly shifted back to contribute.
Liam and Morgana had an affinity for talking to animals and Iman really didn’t like it when they tried to communicate with her.
Morgana stopped trying and said she would speak when she wanted to, but Liam kept trying, even though Iman had taken a few swipes at him and drawn blood. Whatever she was dealing with, she really didn’t want to talk about it.
I hoped she hadn’t been eaten by the void and had the chance to deal with her shit.
“My Da taught me if you need to destroy evidence in a pinch to just set it the fuck on fire because fire destroys everything. If we can’t get petrol, I can make a Molotov cocktail with a rag and a bottle of nail polish remover if Old Jingo doesn’t want to donate a bottle of booze to the cause.
The smell is atrocious, but we could turn their bones to ash if we burn them long enough.
Think Headmaster Mykene would get mad if we baked a reincarnation in the academy ovens if it saved the world? ”
Gross. I’d never be able to eat here again unless they completely gutted the kitchen.
“Mm, not going to work,” Lucian hummed. “One, we don’t know how long it takes for them to come back. Two, cremation in proper ovens takes several hours and we don’t have those here. Three, you can’t use an oven you bake things in to cremate a body. Four, that’s nasty. We eat out of those ovens.”
“Well, I wasn’t going to bake pastries in them after we cooked a body. Obviously, the ovens would have to be replaced.”
“Let’s put a pin in completely ruining my ability to eat anything but takeout while I’m here, but you might be onto something.
Incinerating their bodies might mean they can’t come back from the dead.
If Scorpia can find their original bones, we might be able to do the same thing and they can’t come back at all. ”
I hadn’t realized Khalid was back from his run and had joined us. Now that he was getting more in tune with his jackal, he could move without making a sound.
“You could be onto something,” Khalid said.
“Ancient Egyptians would have been horrified at cremation. It wasn’t done because they believed your soul needed your physical body to survive in the afterlife.
If Apep’s soul went to the void and not Duat when he died, then there was nothing stopping him from returning to his physical body.
Especially if his physical body was buried instead of destroyed. ”
“Obviously, I don’t have any experience in disposing of corpses like his highness the Horned God, but it takes time and we don’t know how long it takes for them to come back.”
“What if dragon fire can do that and that was why they went after Kira?” I asked.
“Well, there’s a certain dragon ponce you certainly aren’t asking because he enjoys sending dick pics,” Liam snarled.
“Pretty sure he’s not much of a social butterfly anymore and only leaves his dorm room to go to class because the birds keep shitting on him,” I pointed out.
“They aren’t going to stop even if I felt like asking them to. His giant flying iguana is an entitled turd who thinks he owns the sky. He’s hurt parents and younglings. He’s got all that poop coming.”
“There are a ton of other dragons here you could ask,” Khalid said. “Ones that don’t send dick pics. Maybe a nice female dragon who isn’t even tempted.”
“I already sent Headmaster Mykene a message through the school app because we don’t know if all dragons like sending naked pics,” Lucian said.
“She said dragon fire will incinerate most things, but gods are difficult to burn. Your bones are different or something. She said it’s an excellent theory, but you’d need something hotter and faster than dragon fire and she doesn’t know what that is.
She did say the Fates recycle us for a reason and they could be trying to make things right after Fairy got destroyed.
Some creature who makes fire that hot could be at the school with us right now.
An original who got destroyed before they could sire a new race. ”
If someone did something unholy to become an original that made fire hotter than a dragon’s that could completely obliterate a god, were they destroyed because the gods didn’t want an entire race of beings who could kill them or were they just so dangerous with their magic that everyone came together to kill them?