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“Except the location of the stone,” I said, sliding closer.
Bracken reluctantly freed Sun from his embrace when he sat up.
In the morning light, his neck was blotched with purple and blue. I couldn’t tear my gaze away from it, even though Sun was searching my face.
My hands started to shake with fury, and I had to shut my eyes to ground myself for a moment.
“Do you want me to tell you where the stone is, Kiar?”
My eyes flew open and this time, I met his dark eyes. He watched me carefully, his expression unreadable and shook my head.
“No Sun,” I said. “You keep that information close to your chest, as you have been doing from the start.”
My gaze flickered up again to Hadi’s form.
When I looked down again, Sun’s gaze was filled with warmth and understanding.
The fact that he was the only one who knew where the stone was, may be the only reason he wasn’t dead already.
“My lips are sealed,” he reassured me. I let out a breath and nodded.
“Good.”
“But I meant what I said last night,” he went on, taking a moment to look at each of us. “We will go together and ask Tsuki to break this bond. We need to be free of each other.”
I laughed.
“There is only one thing I do not understand. How does one speak to a god?”
“Do you know how the god stones work?” he asked.
As he did, a shadow lowered over us.
Sun swallowed and looked up.
I followed his gaze to see Hadi finally moving, lowering himself–still upside down, a web held between his limbs as he dropped close enough to hear, his face turned toward us, his tawny-brown hair hanging down.
Sun hadn’t seen him in the brightness of daylight yet, and for a moment, he stared. Hadi returned the look. For a long time, they stared into each other’s eyes, a strange, silent exchange passing between them.
Finally, Hadi’s lips lifted into a twisted smile.
“I thought you don’t mind me listening,” he reminded Sun. “I thought you had nothing to hide… other than the location of the stone, of course.”
Sun swallowed and nodded, forcing his attention down to me again.
“The Sunstone was blessed by the Sun God Taiyo. Whereas the Moonstone was blessed by the Moon Goddess Tsuki.”
I nodded.
“Everyone knows that.”
“Separate they are almost powerless. Together, they are catastrophic.”
“We already know that,” Bracken said. “Together they can wipe out all the humans. That is why we nocs were looking for the moonstone for so long.”
“Yes,” Sun agreed. “Or they can obliterate all the nocs. That is why we humans were trying to get our old capital Yewan back again after you took it and the sunstone with it. You have kept the sunstone well guarded in your stolen capital, but we chose to hide ours where no one would find it, should you defeat our armies.”
Still in Bracken’s arms, Clem reached out, grasping Sun’s hand and simply holding it.
