Chapter 118

• ORION
• Silence followed our question. Every pair of eyes stayed on her. Surprise hung thick in the room. She nodded with a bright, careless smile while chewing the red apple we had given her.
• “It looks like you were fooled,” she said easily. Juice ran down her fingers as she spoke. “I know about the Eclipse Circles. I am sure the Eclipse killed your mother. She was powerful. She was meant to give birth to a child tied to the Circles. She escaped death during birth, but she chose it later.”