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“I think that’s what she’s trying to tell me. That we need to find it before he sends whatever he’s planning.”
“Well, where is it, then? Is it on Saverio?”
He closed his eyes. “Not anymore.”
“Anymore?” Her scalp prickled. “Dante, how can a spring move?”
“It’s not a spring.”
She made a face. “I don’t know much of the old language, but I do know that part. ‘Lei diede loro una fonte di guarigione—she gave them a healing fountain.’”
“Your accent isstillterrible.” Dante half-smiled. “‘E quando venne il momento della battaglia, i guerrieri sarebbero stati forti, perché Lei diede loro una fonte di guarigione.’ It can mean fountain, but another way to translateuna fonteiswellspring—source.”
Alessa whispered it to herself, trying on the words with the new meaning he’d offered.
And when it came time for battle, the fighters would be strong, for she gave them… a source of healing.
She stilled. “You’re saying that Dea’s third gift isn’t on Saverio anymore, because…”
Dante closed his eyes. “Because we banished them.”
Her breath left her body.
To survive the horror Crollo had planned, they needed an army of nearly invincible soldiers.
But first, they had to find them.
