This is the Q&A for both Ignite the Fire: Incendiary and Ignite the Fire: Inferno. If you haven’t read either book, you should probably not read this, as there are spoilers.

 

 

 

Question 1:  Ok so who is Pythia in Cassie’s time now? I reread the end and cannot decide.

Cassie is Pythia.

You have to recall that the power isn’t mindless. It can think. It was part of a god originally and developed an independent personality after leaving him. It moved to Rhea after Cassie died, but only out of necessity. Rhea hadn’t completed the ritual, so she was in the position that Cassie was in during the first few books: she had more access than an heir, but less than a true Pythia. But then, she didn’t need much in order to send the library on its way.

When Cassie was returned to life with Faerie’s help, the power would have come back to her, since Rhea was largely untrained and it prefers an experienced Pythia. But Cassie was not well physically, to put it mildly, right then and couldn’t wield it. It therefore stayed with Rhea until Cassie recovered, then went back to her.

Basically, if a Pythia is rendered physically or mentally incapable for a time, her heir will receive a measure of the power, but when the Pythia recovers, it will return to her. That’s one reason for having an heir. This was explained in other books, but I probably should have reiterated it in this one. I hope that helps.

 

Question 2:  Aside from Annabelle who else died? Cassie mentions 2 funerals.

Annabelle didn’t die. She is snuggling cats at the Pythian court as we speak. She was selected by Hilde to go find the rest of the court because she is the best at shifting, as she demonstrated when constantly tripping her Pythia up at court. Two of the Graeae died protecting Cassie (Enyo and Pemphredo.)

 

Question 3:  How can goat guy regenerate God power while Cassie can’t?

Because he was bred for it. It was why he was created—to be able to serve as a source of godly energy to feed Zeus, like the rest of the creatures you saw in that lab. They were the experiments that the fey have been doing for centuries, and that you’ve been hearing about since Touch the Dark/Midnight’s Daughter. The ones that didn’t work out were used as cannon fodder in the attack on the Senate as seen in the Dory books; those that did were kept like livestock. That is why the little creature was trying to destroy the lab—to spare them from the life he’d lived, and to deprive Zeus of more power.

As to why Cassie cannot do the same, she is a demigoddess, yes, but that isn’t one of her gifts. Not all demigods are created equal. If you go back to the old Greek and Roman legends, you’ll notice that some of the children of gods are very hard to distinguish from humans. They basically have no power at all. While others, like Hercules, are almost as strong as their godly parents. It’s like genetics on Earth—two red-headed parents can have a brunet child. You just don’t know how the dice will fall until they do.