there?s something more specific that I?m referring to. Something
that goes back to just before you were born?that?s when
everything started going to hell.?
To Helen?s surprise, Pandora took her hand and led her to a
corner where they could sit down next to each other and avoid the
jumble of the rest of the room. Apparently, whatever Pandora had
to tell her was something she wanted to keep between them.
The Delos family was large enough to have cliques, and if Helen
had to put their family into high school terms, Pandora was the
artsy, mysterious girl that everyone wanted to hang out with, but
only a few did on a regular basis.
?Let me start by saying that it?s hardest for Pallas because he?s
lost more than most of us,? Pandora said sadly, before she sat up
straighter and smiled apologetically. ?Don?t get me wrong, my
brother is still an ass for treating you like he did, but it might help
you understand him a little better if you can flip it, and try to see
that your arrival in our lives is just as big a bombshell for us as it is
for you. Do you know about the way our looks are handed down??
Helen felt her face twitch in confusion at what seemed like a one
eighty in the conversation.
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?Sort of,? she said. ?Castor said something about archetypes, and
then Cassandra said that we all look like the people who fought in
the Trojan War, or something.?
?So we?ve all got these recycled faces, right? And we don?t always
look like our parents, or even Scions from our own Houses, but
rather like the people from history that we are supposed to
reincarnate.?
?Yeah, I get that.?
?And since Scions usually tend to fall madly in love with one person