CHAPTER 40Lumina gaped at them.
“I knew these walls were suspicious!” shouted Lothaire, pointing at Eos and Soleil.
“They’re only suspicious to a malevolent creature like yourself!” barked Soleil.
“I like her,” the general said to Lumina.
Soleil beamed at him.
“I don’t understand,” Lumina said. “How did you manipulate the palace’s walls? I thought you were in Xunith.”
“There’s a sacred pond in Xunith,” said Eos, “called the Pond of Knowing—”
“I thought that was a myth,” interrupted Lothaire. “Just like the priestesses who guard it.”
“It’s not a myth,” snapped Soleil, “unless you’re calling my mother a myth.”
Lothaire gawked at Eos and whispered, “You’re a Moon Priestess?”
Eos inclined her head, smiling. “I am.”
Lothaire stared at her. “I never thought … I mean, I heard stories,
