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waved my hand in disgust. “I let you drag me over here and disturb Odin. I let you rant and rage. I’ve had enough. You shout that Thor should grow up, while you throw a temper tantrum. You need to grow up. The adults have important things to do like, oh I don’t know, stop a plague goddess.”
       “ So now I’m behaving like a child?” He totally bypassed the key message, big surprise there.
       “ VѐulfR!” Now, I was getting mad. Trevor quieted instantly at the sound of his given name. “I don't want to be with Thor, okay? You guys are going on and on as if what I want isn't the issue here but it is. What I want is the only thing that should matter because if I don't want Thor, he will never be my lover again, no matter what the rest of you want. Now, have you heard of the Black Plague of 1900?”
       “ The one that hit San Francisco?” He frowned, losing his anger to confusion.
       “ No,” I swallowed hard as old black and white photos flashed through my mind. “The one that hit Hawaii. Chinatown, to be exact.”
       “ The plague came to Hawaii?” He sat down hard, next to Kirill.
       “ You don’t remember that?” Odin’s tone was pure shock. “They were burning the bodies at the Iron Works.”
       “ They burned down Chinatown,” I added quietly. “It was pretty much martial law, although that wasn’t technically declared. There were over three-hundred deaths recorded but that number must be sorely inaccurate because the Chinese, who wanted their bodies sent home to China for burial, began hiding the corpses of their loved ones, to save them from cremation.”
       “ That’s horrible but what does it have to do with us?” Trevor was an amazing wolf but sometimes he was a little slow on the uptake.
       “ Who do you think started the plague?” I shook my head and resumed my seat across from him. “Who do you think brought it to Hawaii… to Chinatown ?”
       “ Oh,” his face fell.
       “ Chinatown may not be the slum it once was but it’s still not the cleanest of places,” I rubbed a hand over my tired eyes. “I’m sure there are more than enough rats to carry the plague far and wide. Do you have any idea what an outbreak of bubonic plague would do to Hawaii? The Chinese never recovered, they’re now only 5% of the population there.”
      “ Doesn’t government take precautions?” Kirill’s face was suddenly more solemn and his face was normally pretty solemn to begin with.
       “ They still test the rats down at the waterfront every so often but the rat population is the highest it’s been in 30 years,” I had no idea that my men didn’t truly understand the ramifications of this particular goddess running amok on my island.
       “ But there’s vaccines now,” Trevor wasn’t going to give in easily. “There are antibiotics and ways to control disease.”
       “ True,” I wanted badly to take comfort in that but those old pictures kept popping up in my head. Scared people held back behind a line of armed military men, burning buildings sparking off to level the city, and then the worst, the only picture of a plague victim taken. It was an extremely painful, ugly way to die. “But bacteria have been mutating, finding a resistance to medicine. They say life will always find a way. What people don’t realize, is that death is just as tenacious.”
       “ I think she’s right,” Odin grimaced. “Xi Wangmu wouldn’t be haunting Chinatown if she didn’t think she had a chance of wrecking some havoc.”
       “ So now we come to the reason why I let Trevor drag us all over here to disturb you,” I looked away from Trevor’s astonishment, to Odin’s curiosity. “I need to borrow your library.”
       “ Of course,” Odin stood and made a gesture to indicate I should precede him. “What are you looking for? Maybe I can help.”
       “ I need to know how to stop a plague goddess,” I smiled grimly.
       “ Oh,