Kaphri\'s Birthstar, Freya, gives her power, but it never responds to her-not in the way she sees other Birthstars fill the Ly Kai men around her with fleeting joy and contentment.
Terrified she is destined for evil, she vows never to use he.
Until she realizes the responding star is not Freya, but Arylla, the great star that fueled the betrayal stranding her and the other Ly Kai on this alien world.
Fire lances along her bones and she is flooded with ecstasy.
Then one night it finally happens.
Kaphri\'s Birthstar, Freya, gives her power, but it never responds to her-not in the way she sees other Birthstars fill the Ly Kai men around her with fleeting joy and contentment