Chapter 114
Chapter 114
Serafine POV
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Eryx is asleep on the bed beside me, and I’ve tried writing in the Threadborn journal, but it’s cryptic, really cryptic, so I’ve given up on that, and instead I’ve grabbed the journal that was by someone else.
I’ve been reading, but I’m no closer to getting answers. I feel like I need to find Nyvarras Hollow, like that will give me the answers I need. Why can’t leser. just find a simple answer?
My head and eyes hurt from reading, and I wonder if there’s more to this than I am seeing. I know what’s going on, I know myself and Eryx are targets. Gideon didn’t hide what we were.
He used it as leverage to gain things. I heard enough from Xander and his men to know Gideon told people he had something powerful enough to destroy all packs except his own.
That knowledge has spread like wildfire, and more and more people want to get close to using it. I stroke along Eryx’s hand slowly and watch as he sleeps.
I need to get this figured out for him, because if my magic goes crazy and I lose control of it, then I put him at risk, he’s got the same magic, i can feel it This is all that matters now, controlling my magic and figuring out where Nyvarras Hollow is.
The one place where answers come, it has to have answers.
A passage stops me, and it’s so small I struggle to read it. I pull the book closer, and squint slightly.
Magic can only be wielded and controlled if the host is stable.
Well, I’ve never been stable. So what does that mean, that I can’t and won’t ever be able to control it? Sighing, I keep reading.
A mate is the best support for Veyrathi, they can use the bond to help control the magic, to help soothe, calm and rationalise the Veyrathi so the magic doesn’t take complete control.
So Xander is the answer? Of course he is, he’s been the answer to a lot of things even if I didn’t want to believe it, he was the answer. Flipping the page over I stop, that’s two pages.
I carefully peel them apart, trying not to destroy the pages or the ink. Once I have, I stare at the first page. It’s a sketch of a place, and something else tells me it’s Nyvarras Hollow, it’s calling to me, so loud that magic hums against my skin.
Looking at the other page I begin to read.
Without a strong mate and strong bond, Veyrathi are deemed to lose all control of their magic. The magic will curl within them, and take control of the
host.
Take control of the host? My thoughts scramble, and I panic.
The host will no longer be in control of their own actions, thoughts or movements. The magic will become too strong and silence them. This is why Veyrathi isn’t awakened until after mating, but past has proven those who rejected their mates were tortured for the power their magic managed to hold.
I feel sick. That would have been me, I ran from Xander saying I was protecting myself, I was wrong. I was pushing myself into something darker, something worse. Sighing, I read more.
Each mate is selected by nature, by the force and the threads of the Threadborn. They are the only ones truly capable of being able to control your magic with you.
So this isn’t about just replacing a mate, it has to be that mate?
Be warned, a mate can easily manipulate the Veyrathi’s magic once it’s linked between them, past experience has shown that a mates greed can turni
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something pure into darkness and result in the Veyrathi’s death.
I quit, I close the book. Why is it I get one good thing then everything else is bad? Everything is warnings or danger. I thought I was finally getting somewhere, I thought I was getting answers and making this easier. Which it has, it’s also warning me, and now I have to trust Xander entirely with this?
He wanted to use me against Gideon and while Gideon is dead, that doesn’t mean he won’t try to use this for more power or for the wrong reasons. I also don’t have a option except to accept this and let Xander in and let him help me.
I need to control my magic and if he can help, then I’ll do it. First though, I need to go to Nyvarras Hollow, I need to see what is there that might actually help me. Surely there will be answers? Rubbing my face I look around the room. Something in this has to be easy at some point. If not, there has to be a way to get an easier answer as to why!
Why is there Veyrathi, why are there Threadborns? It’s confusing, and nothing gives me an answer.
We’re old, older than the werewolves, apparently the original that died out. Which is fine, but what’s the purpose in bringing us back? That’s what I don’t understand.
Unless that’s why? It’s bringing us back, it’s about making more Veyrathi and Threadborns? Werewolves have become one of the weaker strains, one of the weaker beings in our place.
So is that why, is it about rebalancing things out? Getting werewolves back to how strong they used to be before curses, illnesses and wars destroyed us and made us some of the weakest things possible?
That settles in my chest and I realise I’m right. That’s what this is about, I had Eryx, he can continue on the Threadborn gene, it’s about repopulating, and the magic, the strength all of it? Maybe that’s for protection.
The door opens, and I look up to see Xander step in. He gives me a small soft smile.
“We need to talk,” he says.
I nod, not arguing and accept he’s right. I need to tell him what I know.
