Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2406

"At first Lith wouldn't believe me even if I told him that the sky was blue unless he first looked up himself."

"Really? Was my little brother such a bitter prick even as a child?" Were those words coming from anyone else, Tista would have dismissed them as an insult and taught the liar a lesson. "As I remember it, Lith was sweet and caring to a fault.

"He woke up first to let us find the house warm for breakfast and helped Mom with the chores. Lith always took care of me and started working from a tender age to help the family make ends meet."

'Fuck me sideways.' Solus inwardly cursed her own big mouth. 'Tista has no idea that Lith was never a child or that what she experienced was just a mask. I'm so used to talking with Kami about everything that I forgot no one else knows about Derek.'

To add insult to injury, Tista was staring at Solus with eyes full of pain. Tista knew how deep the bond between them was and if Solus was slandering Lith and betraying his trust, then maybe she had led him by the nose all along.

If Solus was telling the truth, it meant that her brother wasn't the wonderful person Tista believed and that would have been much worse.

"He indeed was kind and caring." Solus nodded. "But put yourself in his shoes. He was just a boy who had found a mystical talking stone that asked him to keep her existence a secret.

"Lith was torn between the need to hide the truth from you guys and the fear that I might not be a good fairy like the one in the bedtime stories.

"It just took us a while to know each other better and develop trust." Luckily for Solus, the years spent with Lith had deeply ingrained into her the ability to spout lies off the top of her head and tell them with her best straight face.

The only problem was that she lacked the necessary practice to also be at his level. Tista wanted to believe Solus so she didn't notice the many clues about her deception while Dawn had no intention of nailing Solus and ruining their relationship.

"It makes sense." Tista nodded. "Now that I think about it, Lith had to be an odd fellow since he was little. Had I been the one to find you, I would have told Rena and asked her to keep it a secret.

"Of course she would have told Mom the moment I turned my back and in the blink of an eye the entire family would have known."

"And I would have been there with you and begged you not to every time you were about to talk, just like I did it with Lith." Solus replied.

"What were you saying about Lith not trusting a talking stone?" Dawn helped her to change the subject, already glad to have confirmed that Solus' real body was that of a stone.

"That it took us a long time and lots of mind fusions to trust each other." Solus was so glad of the help that she didn't even notice her own slip of the tongue.

"Mind fusions?" Tista and Dawn said in unison.

Nyka's eyes were wide and her mouth agape as well, but from inside Dawn's mind nobody noticed.

"Yeah. We did it a lot back then. Sometimes even dozens of times a day." Solus nodded. "By fusing our minds Lith could check that I wasn't trying to manipulate him and that I had no hidden agenda."