He rolled his eyes, but not as if he was angry. "The sun will be coming up in a bit. Tell me about what happened when you got home. I know it didn't end in Spain."

"Yeah, you're right." I told him about how my Council had bombarded me and about Esmeralda's murder.

"As long as Athena's alive," Paul said, "then she'll always be a danger to you. Trouble has a way of always finding you. You're right. I did come back in the nick of time."

I smiled. Not that he could ...