I carried the twins to their tent, Belle and Amara helped. Anthony couldn't stop their bleeding but he said it would happen in unison and they would wake up at the same time as well.
"Their brains are linked now," he told. "Everything that one feels the other will feel too."
My head throbbed and spots danced in front of my eyes from the Stargazing incident. Nathan and Lewis had passed out in the tent and I wished to do the same.
The next morning Hellen told us that there had been more attacks on Crimsyn State and we had lost soldiers in Hydrus.
"He's taking revenge on Belle," she told and we all turned to her. She coughed, face tinted pink.
"I have to ask you to stop," Hellen said quietly.
Belle's head snapped up. "Stop?" she almost shouted. "Stop what?"
"Stop taking more Celestial Energy from Hydra."
"That's not possible," Belle protested. "We can't give up. We can't let him win."
"He's going to win either way!" Hellen huffed, crossing her arms. We all stared at her with wide eyes. "If you keep taking from him he'll take from us."
"If we don't take from him he gets what he wants," Phoenix realized. There was a furrow between Belle's brow, she shook her head as if trying to get rid of a thought.
"What's he trying to do with so much Celestial Energy anyway?" Nathan perked up, annoyed by this war council.
"I'm glad you asked that," Belle answered. She cleared her throat and squared her shoulders. "Jaxon is trying to get back his hydra. The Constellation took that serpent from him long ago because his ancestors used it wrongly. He needs enough Celestial Energy to impregnate three Stars with the three heads of a Hydra and that serpent will come down like Rasal did to me."
Hellen snorted, irritating Belle. "May I ask, who told you that?"
Belle's eyes narrowed. "I just know.Why else would he be doing this?"
"As much as I hate to admit it, you're right." Hellen said. "But we can't do anything about it. That's not a big deal."
"He's stealing Constellations," I reminded. "How is that not a big deal? There will be no more population left in Stellaregno by the end of it."
"Yeah, and if that hydra was taken then Stars knew what was best for them," Phoenix added.
"Yes but we're losing people too," Hellen spoke through her teeth. "We can't risk it. We just have to let him do what he's doing and hope that his plan is continued without any more stolen Stars."
"I'm not obeying that order," Belle said.
Hellen shot her a look. "I wasn't asking, Miss Virgo."
Before Belle could retort Hellen retreated to her tent. Lewis leaned in and pulled out a sheet of paper, crumpled and stained with ink.
He yawned and spoke groggily, "I did some research," he told.
"On?" I chided. He handed me the paper and Anthony who sat next to me read over my shoulder. The numbers and words passed over my head, I knitted my eyebrows in confusion.
"What is this?" Anthony stole the words out of my mouth.
He sighed and mumbled something about us being unintelligent. "It's a population chart," he told. "By the end of Jaxon's plan, we'll have thirty percent of the Constellations left which means we're already close to extinction."
"It'll take years to regrow our kind," Anthony said, his mouth agape.
Lewis shook his head. "No," he said. "Now that Belle revealed what he really wants to do. He'll need more minor Constellations and another large one. With the war, we're losing soldiers from both sides so that's cutting off our peoples. I don't think we'll be enough to regrow anything."
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When Stars Fall(The Last Star Trilogy #3)
Fantasy"That explains the color of the sky." I looked up. "It didn't change that much. Now it goes red from time to time." Another statement I shouldn't have said. "That's because of the shooting Stars." Lydia coughed, trying to defend her father's mistake...
