Making the decision, and thinking that she had weighed all the risks, Athena crouched down and reached for the Deity Stone. But before she could grab it, Karyn kicked the stone out of the way.
"What do you think you're doing?!" Karyn yelled. "After all the trouble that that thing caused ..." Suddenly, she stopped and stared at the crowd of Goths and half-animal creatures near them. What had she done?
The Deity Stone had skidded across the floor and stopped somewhere near the feet of one of Zoe's former followers. And that person was now reaching down for the stone, not realizing that it would be absorbed into their body, just like it had for Zoe, and turn them into a deity.
