Star Spark by Day Leitao

Author:Day Leitao [Leitao, Day]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sparkly Wave
Published: 2020-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

Hunger was getting to Saytera. Going down to the beach could be an answer if she found something easy to kill and catch, like a crab, for example. Hopefully not a giant one. Here, on this hill, she was getting sick of mushrooms. Marcus slept in silence now. Instead of looking at his friend, Dess watched her in silence, his eyes no longer lined in black, all the painting gone with the tears from the night before.

She decided to ask, “What are you looking at?”

He blinked. “You.”

Saytera shivered. It was odd. He wasn’t staring at her the way Kay did, it was different, and unsettling for different reasons. She decided to change the subject and got up. “Listen, I’m starving and I’m going to the beach.”

He was in front of her. “Wait. I think he’ll wake up soon. If he’s at least conscious, we can leave him.”

Thunder rolled outside. “I’m not gonna wait for the storm.”

Dess held her wrist. “Too late. If you go out now you’ll come back drenched again.”

He was right. So many dark clouds in the sky. It was annoying. She shook her arm free, got back inside, and sat down on a corner. Dess sat by her. “Listen, I’m sorry. I can’t change what I’ve done. But we need to stick together to survive.”

“We’ve been sticking, haven’t we?” She glanced at Marcus. “And he’s going to make it.”

Dess nodded and smiled. “Tell me about the Terens. Tell me what you know.”

“I don’t really know much. I think you know more than I do. Who are they? Where are they from? What do they want?”

“What I know is that they’ve been around as long as humanity has, but tend to isolate themselves and focus on magic.”

Saytera almost corrected his mention of magic. But if she accepted it as just another name for matterweaving it started to make sense. What were words, anyway? “What about you? What do you do with the people you kidnap?”

“I don’t do anything. I just hand them over to the council.”

“What about the killings?” she asked.

“You said it was an entire base, right? That I can say with ninety-nine percent certainty that it has nothing to do with Lunars.”

“So who, then?”

He was thoughtful. “Internal enemies, maybe?”

“I don’t know.”

He looked away and shook his head. “See, we’re both losing. Is anyone winning anything in this war? There’s only pain and loss.”

Pain and loss. So much pain and loss, and yet, some of Saytera’s didn’t really relate to that specific war, but to something else. “Is everyone in your moon that knowledgeable about Terens?”

“Not that I know of. I know about them because I had the books and my parents told me about them. I don’t know anyone else who really, truly believes we’re capable of a greater power.”

“Doesn’t that make you the odd one out?”

“I’m an orphan. That makes me stand out enough already.”

“But you said your parents…”

“When I was a child. They died when I was eleven.”

“I’m sorry.” That didn’t help, she knew, but she didn’t know what else to say.

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