Chapter Five
Huna's story
Masaya, Nicaragua 120 B.C.
When Huna was only five years old, he knew what love was. Not the love he felt for his mother, but true love that burned into his chest and made his heart ache. He knew because that was what he felt for Daisel.
Daisel was from the village while Huna lived in the chief's palace. It was a large stone building with many rooms and an open courtyard surrounded by a canal. It sat high in the jungle above the mountain they called Masaya.
Huna's father had died before his birth, and his mother Akna was the chief's royal healer, so he was raised in the palace with the chief's only son, a boy his age named Xbalan.
The chief was kind to Huna and treated him like a son, which Xbalan resented. The two boys spent most of their time with Akna and
