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Wes fell next to me. We laid on our backs as we stared up at the stars, just like we had in the dead grass by the cave so many years ago. “What did it say to you? I could hear it hissing in your ear, but I couldn’t make out the words.”
I turned to him and smiled, hoping it hid the heartache that lingered. “Nothing. It was just trying to scare me.”
He took my hand. “I’m glad we gave it hell.”
“Me too.”
There was no reason to bring up what had really happened in the smoke haze. Those days were dead and gone. If I let it become a problem, the curse would get exactly what it wanted, and I wasn’t about to give it an inch. Though I was powerless to stop the thread of doubt that began to wind its way around my heart.
Exhausted and emotionally drained, I turned my attention back to the constellations peeking out of the twilight. They were so far out of reach. Though the answers we needed couldn’t be found up there anyway. The descendants who had already fought this battle were now little more than dark matter and stardust.
They’d left us nothing. No clues, no plan, no instructions for how to use our magic to repair the stones and bind the curse once more. All we had was a legend of how our island was formed, and what steps the curse had taken to destroy it. That was it.
We were completely on our own.
