Chapter 5
Isika woke Benayeem and whispered the plan to him in the garden, just as Jerutha had done for her. When she finished, he straightened and looked at her. In some ways, Benayeem and Isika were the closest of their siblings, because they remembered their mother and the desert, but in some ways, they were as distant as two stars, because they were so different. He was quiet and tall, self-contained and often withdrawn, while Isika was impetuous and reactive, quick to blame or cry, ready to make up right away. He had taken this terrible news of Kital's sending and he had run. Isika had stayed and blown up at her father and received the penalty. Now she saw him trying to make sense of what she was saying.
"Just… leave?" he whispered.
"How can we let them take one of us again?" Isika
