Then we need a way to protect ourselves from its moods first.

[As much as hates having Rhy depend on this alien thing, he doesn't want it to retaliate. Like it almost did the last time Rhy tried to ask it. Ask might to be too much to call what he did. Communicate the intention rather. Even Kell, from his place several feet away, fighting a migraine of his life, could feel the displeasure. Or so he thinks now. His memory of the whole experience is a little blurry.]

I want it back, but I don't want to do anything that would put Rhy in danger. I just ... I don't want him to be tied to this things and its whims.