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With a small nod, I encourage him to continue.
“Amaro and Levon have been trying to take the shield down for as long as they have been here. They must have people on the outside helping them.” He frowns. “They have been telling the Caligo guards that the Sidus are the ones who are tainted. And with the dark creatures being drawn to you all, it acted as proof to them that the gods must have chosen the creatures to rid you all from this world.”
“So that is why they hate us? They think the Sidus are evil because of what Amaro and Levon told them?” I don’t know whether to laugh or scream at the idea.
“The dark creatures aren’t as drawn to the Caligo and their shadows, so this only plays into their story, making them believe that they are favored by the gods.”
A small chuckle falls from my lips, but there is no amusement in it. The Caligo guards think the Sidus are the evil ones, andyet they have no objection to making us suffer, torturing us, or killing us.
It makes no sense how they can justify their actions to commit the evil they call us.
“I saw two other islands when the shield cracked open. Who is on them, and do they know about us?”
Veles gives me a look as if he was hoping I would forget about it. But knowing now that it is the gods who created the dark creatures and that there is a whole other world out beyond us just makes me want to know as much as possible.
“There are two other kingdoms of Caligo and Sidus. They are kept apart from each other and shielded just like this one.”
“Why keep us hidden from one another? Why hide us at all?” It makes no sense. The entire world is unhidden, and yet the Caligo and Sidus are hidden from everyone and everything. Even each other, it seems. Butwhy?
“They thought it best,” he says, too vague for me to understand.
“They?” I look at him and quickly surmise whotheyare. The Fae.
“Why didn’t they ask us whatwewanted?” Maybe we didn’t want to be hidden and caged off from the rest of the world.
“They wanted to protect you,” he says with a sad sort of smile that makes my anger retreat for a moment.
“And what is it that they are protecting us from?”
“The gods,” he says, and my eyes widen in shock as my stomach drops. “They want you all dead. They don’t know where the Sidus and Caligo are. The Fae have kept this location a secret and protected it along with the other two kingdoms. The only way on and off any of the islands is through a portal and the land of the Fae. All of which are heavily guarded.”
“Why do the gods want us dead?” Surely if the Fae are as strong as he says, they would see them as more of a threat than any of us.
“Your existence alone is a threat to them.”
“How could any of us possibly be a threat against a god?” I doubt even the Fae would stand a chance.
“The gods must fall before all can rise,” he whispers to himself before looking at me. “The prophecy spoke of their taint and corruption, yes, but it also foretold their ending. They thought killing the one who foretold the prophecy would end it completely. But a loophole is always created when fate is defied. The Sidus and Caligo are descendants of the original prophet and the one who foretold the prophecy. Which means you all are that loophole and the only thing standing in the way of the gods and their foretold ending.”
CHAPTER 32
Leaning against the pillar and lost in thought, still trying to wrap my head around everything Veles told me, I glance out at the sky, or the illusion, and the sun now raised high above the clouds.
There are so many questions I have unanswered and so many things I don’t fully understand, but the heaviness sitting atop my brain now makes any further questions left aside for another day.
“I regret not being able to make it to you in time,” Veles says with a frown, pulling me from my jaded thoughts.
“Kestral killed him, of course, but I would have liked to torture that vile male after what he did to you.”
My body turns to stone. “You saw?”
Veles nods at me, a blood-fueled rage that quickly tapers off to a look of intrigue.
“I caught the ending. But not before I saw you free yourself by creating a whirlwind. Something no Sidus or Caligo has the power to do.” He looks at me with a question in his eyes. One I feel drawn to answer.
He told me everything I asked, and even though it was most likely because of the blood vow, I still feel that the smallfriendship forming between us requires my own truth. Or at least a part of it.
“I used it one other time, when my powers were blocked. I don’t know how I have come to have it or understand why, only that I am grateful for it.” I would have died by the Breaker’s hands if I didn’t have it.
