Fira dropped her chalk mid-sentence when the two contained fragments on the table began humming in unison.
"They're talking to each other," Fira said, backing away fast. "Look, they're matching pace, exactly the same rhythm."
Kane leaned in carefully, studying the twin lights pulsing in their stone containers. "That happened the moment we brought Grath's piece back near the one from the fishing village."
Lira joined them, brow furrowed with concern. "That's not normal fragment behavior. Loose energy doesn't usually recognize other loose energy like that."
Corvina, who had traveled to Dustbridge the moment word reached her of the fragments' strange resonance, studied the twin lights with growing unease. "Unless they were never truly separate to begin with. Just scattered pieces of the e
