Arad was asleep with Haru right when he felt it, the portfolios of war, fighting, and violence escaping his inner soul. They didn't fly out, get stolen, or sealed. They just disappeared and slipped through reality, reaching toward someone else.
Arad wasn't that attuned to divinity, but even he could understand what that meant. Someone had managed to become a demigod, and those portfolios had found their new master.
That meant that he couldn't stockpile portfolios and hoard them. That was both bad and good. It meant that even though Arad can't hoard that power, no one else could hoard it either. All that someone could do was hold onto the portfolios until a demigod was born.
Inside Mira's soul, she rolled back and saw her father standing between her and Jordan.
"Girl, back away." Her father took a step forward, and Jordan backed away.
