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the Bermuda Triangle on which their ancestors, both human and god, had lived. Before the two gods and the angel that made up the Tryah instigated a war that ultimately sank the island hundreds of years earlier.
    â€œSo when I saw him outside my school, I was wary but not afraid. He told me what I wanted—needed—to hear, that he missed me and wanted to spend time with me. His devastation at losing touch with me had inspired him to take in homeless children. He assured me that my mother had given him permission to bring me for a visit.
    â€œThe secluded estate was beautiful, but something felt off. I met you and another Caido our age named Silva. The first night I spent there, I sneaked into the wing my father had forbade me to enter and found several non-Caido Crescent kids locked in rooms. They told me they’d been kidnapped. Then my father discovered me and that’s when he explained that they were part of an important program to find a way to break the Caido curse. And now I would be, too.”
    â€œHe was experimenting with kids just so you all could get off?” Kye’s outrage sang through him. At Hayden’s surprised expression, she explained how she knew about desire causing Caidos pain.
    â€œIt wasn’t just about sexual desire,” Kasabian said. “It was about freeing us from the effect of all emotions, so we could be a part of society. He made it sound altruistic and promised that no one would be harmed in the process. But that was a lie. It hurt the Caidos, who were channeling the kids’ essence to some kind of vessel.” He rubbed the place where the scar resided, now remembering the searing heat. “And it drained the non-Caidos. All the kids were too young to be Awakened to their powers. My father believed our untapped magick was purer, therefore stronger.”
    â€œWhy were they filling a vessel?” Kye asked.
    â€œI don’t know the exact mechanism, but an angel told my father that filling this vessel would free them from their ties to this plane. And that would break our curse.” Kasabian turned to Hayden. “The reason you and I crave emotions is because we were flooded by them during our captivity. We could feel everything without pain. But after our escape, we no longer had the protection of the Essex that we got every day. And we wanted to feel again.”
    Hayden gripped the back of the chair he was standing near. “What happened to the kids?”
    â€œMy father said he returned them to the parents he’d ‘borrowed’ them from when they started to weaken. We’d wake up and one or more would be gone. I regularly crept into their wing to check on them. One Deuce girl was fading fast. I gathered her in my arms and meant to beg my father to send her home.”
    Such a small girl, looking at him with hope in her glazed blue eyes. “She died in my arms. I couldn’t help her, couldn’t…” The grief and helplessness washed over him anew. He cleared his throat. “To test my father, I laid her back in her bed. The next day when I saw her empty room, I asked where she was. He told me she’d gone home to recover. I started making an escape plan right then.”
    Kye’s eyes glittered with tears. Could she feel his pain at that memory? She swiped them away. “He just let them die?”
    â€œHe kept saying our suffering was a small price to pay for releasing the pain of a whole race of Crescents. Wasn’t that, after all, what wars were about? Sacrificing our soldiers’ lives to win freedom? He didn’t want to hear my point that today’s soldiers voluntarily sign up for the dangers when they’re of legal adult age. He believed that what he was doing was justified.”
    He tore his gaze from her to Hayden. “You and I conspired to escape. I didn’t trust Silva. He was sucking up to my father as well as to me. You were the only Caido I could trust. We took