Afterglow

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Colt’s snowmobile picked up speed as he revved the engine, racing north across the vast glacier. Even with the Arctic wind stinging his cheeks and his cold fingers numb on the handlebars, he couldn’t stop the excited smile that crept across his face.

After all, out of the hundreds of gods he’d hunted down throughout his many lifetimes, Mnemosyne was always his favorite goddess to kill.

Still, he couldn’t help but gaze at the endless tundra around him and think, This? This sparsely populated island, this barren wasteland is where she chose to hide from me?

He’d hunted her down twice before in fact—once in 1829, and then again in 1924—but apparently this time Mnemosyne thought if she tucked herself away at the end of the world, he’d never find her. The goddess honestly believed she could outsmart him.

Well, she should have known better than to try to out-trick a trickster god.

The thrill of the hunt grew in him as he saw the lone structure appear on the horizon.

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