“What is that?” Sam asked.
He’d opened the bronze chest only to discover it was empty except for the dirty white crystal shard at the bottom of it. He picked up this shard which fit snugly into his palm and recalled the final half of the clue that had been etched on the surface of the Norn Coin in Medea’s possession.
[Yet to open its bright Gates one requires the keys
Found in the Tribulation hidden among the trees]
“This is the key?” he wondered skeptically.
“It’s a sunstone,” Chiron answered.
The centaur had appeared behind him as if by magic because he didn’t think the centaur’s bottom half could scale up the tower as he had.
“How’d you get up here?” Sam asked, his eyebrow arching.
“I’m nimble,” the centaur chuckled.
The invisible crowd laughed along with him.
“The show’s still not over?” Sam asked.
“Never mind them,” Chiron said as he pointed to the shard in Sam’s hand. “Do you know what a sunstone is used for?”