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I would’ve bowed to Hadi’s bravery if we weren’t trapped in a nightmare on opposite sides of the war. I knew no man who would challenge a vengeful goddess, especially one in the process of murdering us.
Like right now.
I gasped as darkness flooded us all around until it was like we were in a pit again, only this time surrounded by…
“Kiar? Bracken? Clem!?”
At least, mirror images of them greeted us. They banged against glass-like walls, screeching, hissing, and screaming, but to no avail. It wouldn’t crack. They were trapped in a realm that couldn’t be reached.
“They will be alright,” Hadi insisted. “Trust me!”
“You don’t know that! We have to save them,” I cried out as Clem glowed bright white and then went totally still, stunned, like he had been before when he had gone crazy, besieged by visions in the Celestial Forest.
“No,” Hadi spat curtly, looking up as more mirrors descended from the heavens. “You will learn to speak when spoken to. To serve without questioning me once you are subjugated. For now, you will sit and be patient while I commune with Tsuki.”
Huh?
I gazed up at him in confusion, but Hadi refused to elaborate. Did he no longer wish to kill me? Did he plan to keep me?!
Hadi’s gaze locked on the mirrors that flipped sideways, a hard set to his jaw, ignoring me now.
Heart racing, I waited helplessly, frustrated as hell as Tsuki finally came to us. Her radiant moonlight was blinding, all consuming, and I could not tear my eyes away.
She was walking down translucent stairs, her pure white gown glittering like starlight. I had heard of priests going blind from her beauty if the imperial records were to be believed.
But I did not see an all-powerful gorgeous goddess before us as she came within striking distance of Hadi and I, cradling her moonstone.
No, she looked like a blindfolded slip of a woman, maybe an older teen, frail and weeping incessantly.
Hadi and I looked at each other, and he grimaced, disgusted.
“You are our creator? I thought you would be more awe inspiring, more ruthless than this,” he barked.
There he was again, mouthing off in front of certain death.
“This… is not my will. Together, you will rebuild my dignity and restore my divinity,” Tsuki murmured nervously, like a lost little girl lashing out, searching for safety. Then she spoke to someone else. “It took so long, but I brought them together. Can you hear me now, dearest husband?”
She clutched her face, black nails digging into her snow-white skin, leaving behind red marks on her cheek.
“I saved our champion. I raised his knights from the grave and selected a chosen one from my nocturnal children. I gave my emissary the power to bind them! I have set their crossed stars in motion, on the same path! I have done everything you have asked of me! Now give me the key so we may have our reunion.”
She waited for a moment and then suddenly laughed, twirling, dancing in the moonlight that flooded her realm within the mirror.
“Darling I will return to you. Noc and human, living as one. We will right this wrong.”
What the hell is she talking about?
I shifted, still held firmly by Hadi as she ranted and raved like a lunatic, like Clem had. More red light flooded the space we stood in, sharper, brighter, manifesting near my hands.
Shocked, I looked down at what she had placed into my hands with her magic.
Both the moonstone and the sunstone shined up at me.
“Sunstone?! Moonstone?!”
I gasped as Hadi’s voice overlapped mine. Why were we speaking as one? I glared at Hadi, who returned my scorn tenfold as I gripped the stones and held them away from him the best I could.
“I was betrayed. My legacy tarnished. He must be destroyed in order for the world to know peace,” Tsuki said, lifting her finger toward Hadi, I assumed. He tensed. Bracken and Kiar’s thrashing renewed. Clem gasped awake.
