"What did they do?" I asked. We were back inside our hotel room.

"They say...Stillborn demigods are stronger fighters than normally born demigods. Evgeni was normally born, I was stillborn. We were supposed to fight with our Sila but I could never defeat him; not even once. I got no food. I was kept in the dungeons without food for months because demigods can't die of starvation. Evgeni, on the other hand, was treated like a prince and grew up in a huge palace. He was a student at the lab.

One day, I got away. And for the first time ever since I was born, I saw the sun...