Chương 699: Nothing for your trouble

Nefretiri

I stared into the eyes of a being who called himself God without knowing what to say to him.

Had he really offered me Hati and Skoll's souls? Vali was still weak, but she forced all her attention to the conversation. This was the being who took her oldest children away from her in the first place and made them eternal slaves to a task I couldn't comprehend. What did it matter if they chased the sun and moon? What did it mean? Why take their humanity and leave them as immortal wolves struggling against their bonds? Their duty was so powerful they couldn't stay together in the same place for more than a few moments at a time.

"This is what you want, isn't it?" He held up both palms, showing me two glowing teardrop-shaped crystals. I stared at them, shocked because I sensed two souls inside them. Protected but trapped within the impossible gems. "This is what you've been crying about for so long? The thing you hate me for? Here, take them!"