Connie
Stella had lied. I knew it wasn’t without reason. Each of us knew back then that the unity spell had no side effects. It was smart of her to put the children’s worry first and not mention Nexus’s counterattack. Celia was already injured when we cast the spell that day. Had she already been infected with whatever this was and didn’t know it?
She even protected our children with her sun shield while doing so. That took an incredible amount of energy and resilience. The way the odds had been stacked against us during that time made me admire my friend even more. In all my training and studies as a hunter, it was said that only one weapon could injure or even kill a sun god or goddess made in this world.
Something definitely happened to Celia before she appeared through the gateway d
