Warriors of the Sun God - A Fantasy Novel

Warriors of the Sun God is a fantasy saga in serialized format. Follow the story of the quest. This page updates every M/W/F. Navigation buttons are below.

Murderer-11

Galon has admitted to the Winged that he killed the Winged that had been with them before. And he said he refused to be ashamed because of the way the Winged treated them and the way he would have treated his own people.

I stared up at the Winged, and they stared back at me with their wings mantling like birds of prey. “I do not believe you,” their leader said finally. “Terius would not behave in such a way.”

“Why not?”

“Because he was one of the children of the keys! He knows the horror they go through! Why would he add to it? It doesn't make sense!”

“Because he'd been through all that, and he was afraid it had been for nothing. That the tools of his escape had always been available, had he just known where to look. And that what he'd believed would be the reward of his suffering, to fly again, would never exist. He lashed out because he felt betrayed by everything he'd ever done.”

“And you? Do you feel betrayed?”

“No one made me any promises. I don't particularly care if you fly again or not. I'm doing this for Katros and for your children, not for you.”

“Why do you care about our children?”

I stared at him like he was particularly stupid. “Because they're children. Why shouldn't I?”

“We do not care for your children.”

“That is your loss and my gain, then. Does it matter? What's important is that we find this tree-dwelling creature and get it to help us so the bird that isn't named Sydon will help us. Anything else is irrelevant.”

“Even murder?”

“You would have killed us, were the situation reversed. Wouldn't you?”

There was a very long silence, then a short, grudging nod. “Yes. But we are superior. We have the right.”

“Funny. Terius said much the same thing about my having killed him. That I had the power, and therefore I had the right. Does nothing else matter to you people?”

“Freedom from this curse and regaining our flight.”

“I can't promise you flight. But we're here to release you from the curse. Anything else is yours to attempt to achieve.”

“Then tell us this. When you have all the keys, what will you do? What will you ask for?”

“That rather depends on you, doesn't it?”

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