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When their Wealda arrived on the scene, barking questions at father and son, Atreus was still riding the adrenaline high. If there was anything accusatory in his aunt’s expression or tone, he didn’t notice.

Chest puffing up with pride, he opened his mouth to answer when Aventus spoke over him. “Loitering” wasn’t a word Atreus knew, though he took it to be synonymous with trespassing. Already, the fact that the stranger had never even crossed the borders was warping in his small brain.

The boy held his tongue until his dad was through, then crowed, We beat up an intruder! And took his meat!