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‘Him. Tell him you’re a friend of mine. He’ll hear you out and give you and your k?thi crew room, food and board as long as you’re willing to fight.’
Kaniz inclined her head for a beat, considering Sana’a’s suggestion. ‘I’ll put it to everyone; tis the logical answer. That said, you’ve been tousling with some savage shit.’
Sana’a furrowed her brow. ‘Why do you say that?’
The k?thi master’s eyes were locked to a spot above Sana’a’s eyes.
‘What?’ the shikari asked.
‘That,’ Kaniz drawled, pointing to Sana’a’s forehead.
The Shotelai woman lifted her hand to her head and encountered something under her tentative fingers.
‘The hell?’ she spat. ‘What is it?’
The k?thi master huffed, then searched around the room. ‘You’ll need a mirrored surface.’
The incredulity in Kaniz’s eyes was enough for Sana’a to reach her hands out and give a silent command.
‘I’ll use my blades,’ she whispered as her ether-like weapons shimmered into view on either side of her and flew into her grasp.
She pulled her left hand to her face, where the blade glistened like a well-polished mirror.
‘What the fokk?’ she hissed.
Shining in the centre of her head was a golden lodestone pulsing like a jewel.
‘How in freakin’ hell?’
She turned with a piercing glance to Kaniz, who’d since stepped back, eyes narrowed, hands over chest, and body locked as if anticipating her wrath.
‘Who’ve you been messing around with?’ the k?thi master asked, brows raised.
Sana’a slammed a hand against her thigh to restrain from crying out loud and, instead, took a series of sharp breaths.
‘How is this even possible?’ she exhaled, panting in a slight panic.
Kaniz gave her an incredulous look. ‘An old wives tale states that if a xkénos born slept with a kätu magus with enough íkan power, they could turn them into a Katánian. Wings and all.’
Heart pounding, Sana’a lifted her blade to gaze at herself once more.
You can control it.
The thought came to her mind in Killen’s voice.
She fell back at the startling sound, but for an unknown reason, she found no despair in her soul.
Still staring into her blade’s mirror surface, she blinked, and at a thought, the lodestone disappeared.
With another, it reappeared.
‘I can command it.’
Kaniz’s eyes flashed over her with interest. ‘Looks like you’ve more íkan in that small jewel than most provinces of Katáne. Whoever gifted it to you is powerful indeed. You’ll need to thank them.’
Although shaken to the core by her unexpected boon, Sana’a had no such plans.
Instead, she drew in a ragged breath. ‘What I need to do is leave Kos. For an unknown amount of time.’
