No one knew the shards more than Zein, so when the guide went silent in palpable confusion, everyone could only look at Zein without uttering a single word.
Except for his boyfriend, that is.
"Is that possible?" Bassena asked quietly above the guide's shoulder, hiding the sighing Zein from sight.
"Rather, it's the only possibility, isn't it?" Zein shrugged. He thought about the possibility that the shard found an anchor and followed it, but what that anchor was, Zein could not fathom. "At least, we know it hadn't fallen to the Fallen Star's hand. There's no way the sea would be cleaned off the beasts otherwise."
"Hmm..."
