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“It doesn’t belong to you,” he says softly, and my gaze snaps to his.
“And it will not always come to your aid. You need to be close enough for it to work. At least until the bond fully forms.”
“How do you know any of this? Close enough towhat?” I sit up as my mind races with his words, searching for an answer I do not have.
“Not what,who,” he says, a deep frown marring his brow. “You borrowed it from another.”
That is not possible. “How can anyoneborrowa power that belongs to another?”
He cocks his head to the side and hesitates as he observes me for a moment.
“It is not unusual for…matesto share powers between each other.” His voice is strained, tense.
Everything inside me freezes. “Mates? Caligo and Sidus do not have mates.”
“But Fae do,” he says slowly, and a heaviness settles on top of my chest. “A Fae’s mate can be any being, and the bond between two fated is created by the goddess Danu herself.”
He leans back as if to give me more space to think or breathe. “You borrowed your mate’s power,” he says with unwavering eye contact and complete certainty in his voice.
“MyFaemate,” I reply, but it sounds more like a question.
He nods and I spot something in his eyes, a glint of knowing that makes me suspicious.
“You know who it is,” I accuse.
He releases a drawn-out exhale before continuing. “There is only one able to control all elements and one who is known to wield the whirlwind you created.”
“Tell me, Veles. Whose power did I borrow?”
“Mine,” Kestral says as he moves from the shadows and steps into the hall beside us.
It takes a moment for the shock to leak away from my mind and body as I slip down off the wall to stand in front of him.
Mine. Mine. Mine.
Veles quickly slips out, avoiding Kestral’s cutting look.
Once he’s gone, Kestral focuses back on me, his face now devoid of emotion. But I can see the truth in his eyes. He doesn’t want to have this conversation, the sharp look he gave Veles a moment ago proof of that. He didn’t want to reveal this to me. Maybe he never would have. And for some reason, that makes me incredibly frustrated.
“Has the healer checked you over? The orb might cause some?—”
“Have you ever been to the Sidus town?” I ask him, wanting to know more about him and hoping my offhanded question might remove that hollow mask of his.
The first flicker of emotion seeps into his face and he frowns at me.
“The town?” he asks.
“TheSidustown, down the mountain and into near complete darkness.”
His frown only grows. “No.”
I nod, expecting as much. He isn’t a real royal, only masquerading as one. It was just a task to him. An obligation that spanned out centuries.
“Veles told me that you all did this to protect us. To keep us safe. But there has been nothingsafeabout living here. In fact, there has been no living or joy. There has only been sufferingand death. And had we not been confined to thiscage, we might have stood a chance to survive.”
Something flickers in his eyes before he shoves it down.
“It will not happen again. The shield will be fixed soon. And Amaro and Levonwillbe found and punished.” He clenches his fists at his side.
