Summary

In Chapter 19, Alex, TJ and Magnus eat dinner and then return to the pottery studio. Alex checks on the warrior briefly then goes to sleep. T.J. and Magnus set up impromptu beds out of canvas tarp available in studio. As they lay down to sleep Magnus asks T.J. to tell him more specifically what will happen during the fight. T.J. explains that the he and the ceramic warrior will fight simultaneously until they are no longer able to fight. Magnus will be there to heal T.J. during the fight.

Magnus asks how he is so calm, and T.J. tells him that he had a lot of close calls while fighting in the civil war. During one of them, a sense of calm washed over him and he decided that if his father is the god of bravery, he...