The Starless Girl by Liz Delton

Author:Liz Delton [Delton, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781640345812
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Grey Knight

Tucked in her belt, the hilt hidden by the hem of her vest, Kira’s new dagger felt reassuring against her hip. Before departing, Zowan had reminded her of her homework: to figure out whether the dagger was made of Light magic or not. She wasn’t allowed to ask the masters, her friends, or even Jun. Zowan said he would know if she did. She doubted it, but she would keep to her word. She had one week.

At dinner, she could tell Jun wanted to ask her how her day with Zowan had gone, but both of them knew she couldn’t answer truthfully in front of everyone else. Hikaru was unashamedly jealous that Kira was being advanced to page so soon—and he admitted as much as he, Kira, Jun, and Nesma left the courtyard behind the kitchen house.

“But it’s going to be a lot of work,” Nesma said to Hikaru as they crossed the open temple square. “The lessons will be much harder—”

“—And you get to train with Zowan the Defector, too,” Hikaru cut across her, still in awe. “Does Master Starwind think you might have the potential to become a Grey Knight? Is that why you’re training with a Shadow?”

Kira shrugged and, to her surprise, felt a spark of excitement ignite in her chest at the idea.

“Do either of your parents have Shadow magic or just Light?”

The spark flickered and went out. For some reason, Kira’s face flamed red, and she was glad the moon was waning—there was only a quarter of it left and not much natural light to see by. Colors, and blushing cheeks for that matter, were not illuminated by Light magic.

“I don’t know,” Kira said, trying to keep her voice as even as possible. “They’re gone,” she added quietly. It was enough to twist a wrenching rip around her heart, but it was also enough to get Hikaru to stop questioning her about it. He bit his lip and changed the subject.

Even though she had grown up knowing that her father was dead, the places she held in her heart for both of her parents now seemed inflamed and raw. Knowing now what she did about the Realm of Camellia, she was more confused than ever. Were Ichiro and Nari right? Had she and her mother really come from here?

And what of her father? Kira’s mother had never wanted to talk about him.

They said their goodbyes beside the glowing cherry blossom tree, and Kira and Nesma headed for the girl’s dormitory house in silence. Nesma was easy like that. Kira’s mentor was good at reading other people’s emotions. It made Kira smile a little at Nesma when they reached the gallery to the dormitory house and went inside.

Though she hadn’t had a chance ever since Nesma had shown it to her, Kira was beginning to think it might be time to go to the library. Zowan’s lesson had opened something in her. She needed to know more about Camellia—and whether it really was possible that she had come from here.

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