"No. He said since it was necessary to my survival, it wouldn't cost anything." A good thing, for Leo was wary of owing someone as powerful as a god anything like a debt. Who knew what the price to pay would be when they came calling?

"It really is," Leo confirms gravely. For Sunai, hunger was a thing ingrained into their psyches, as much a part of them as breathing or sleeping. It never truly left, only pushed to the side for a while, the way it was for a shark.