CHAPTER 6
AURORAAfter that horrible nightmare, I walked next to Ares toward Hades’s kingdom. I had tossed and turned all night, and then I’d needed to awake to stand guard with my pack while the others slept. To say I hadn’t gotten any sleep was an understatement.
Yawning, I wiped my tired eyes and listened to the quiet morning hum in the underworld. Warriors scanned the woods for other hellhounds and hounds who might try to attack us. I continued forward and hoped that we’d get some information on the hounds, Nyx, and maybe even Mars’s whereabouts at Hades’s place.
“There is a castle about a half mile ahead,” Minerva announced. “Let’s hurry.”
I picked up my pace, wanting to get out of these woods as quickly as possible. Sometime during our walk over here, the thick mist had turned to
