"Ah!" Selûne cried, her voice sharp. "I'd already gotten used to Lathander as the sun... Why did Ao have to bring Amaunator back? For a divine power network? What do we need him for?
"The sun could do perfectly well without a god!"
"Ao won't have to deal with Amaunator himself." Shar actually laughed. "Heh. I won't have anything to do with him either. If we meet, I'll just fight him.
"Have you forgotten? He once tried to bring the sun and moon together... I think he'll be even worse this time."
Hill turned to look at her, bewildered. So Amaunator had once tried to pursue Selûne?
Selûne let out an angry growl. "Why did you have to remind me of that humiliation?
"I have Greater Divine Power now! He's only a Lesser Divine Power!"
Hill drank his Elven Wine with a blank expression. Selûne was nothing like Sharess. Faced with Amaunator's condescending pursuit, tangled up in calculation and greed but utterly devoid of affection, she would only want to kill him.
Perhaps Selûne would merely find him revolting now. But at the height of Amaunator's power, no evil god except Shar had dared openly oppose the Sun God... So when Selûne had sought Sharess's protection under the name Selûne, had she been hiding from her sister or from this arrogant Sun God?
Shar laughed softly. "So you're just going to watch him reclaim his Divine Throne?"
"Don't tell me you haven't interfered!" Selûne collected herself and spoke unhurriedly. "We promised Ao we wouldn't strike, but he never said we couldn't make trouble... How could reclaiming his Divine Throne be this easy?"
Shar said coldly, "When Calim turned into a tornado just now, he split off a gust specifically to carry Ekak away.
"That smoke elemental has probably taken the