“Black Warriors?” When he nodded, she said, “So if you felt you had to be a bully to fit in, then why did you change your mind about Perseus?”

“Maybe I felt sorry for him because he was so scrawny. Or maybe there was just something in his

eyes when he looked at me, like they were a kind of mirror that made me see myself in them. See

what I was doing.” His whole body was rigid along the length of hers. “I told them to leave him

alone. So they turned on me.” She felt his shrug, as if what the bullies had done to him was nothing...