Chapter 119
Chapter 119
Xander POV
Helena has joined us. It was Serafine’s idea. Apparently, Helena is helpful with another body to protect, but I’m not about to start a fight over it.
I sit quietly, watching as Serafine sleeps, her arms wrapped around Eryx,
“You should get some sleep, Alpha,” Killian
says.
the
ew journal Serafine has, so I didn’t argue too much. It’s not ideal, it’s
I know he’s right. Tomorrow we will travel through rogue territory, and I will need to be aware, I’ll need to be ready to face them and make a deal. Still, I can’t sleep. Too much has happened, and the last time Serafine slept, her magic became uncontrollable.
Yes, we suspect it was because danger was lurking and it was warning her, but still, I’m worried about falling asleep in case something else happens. We have the guardians with us, not that I wanted to, but they began to circle the vehicles, so I guess we have extra protection.
“If anything happens, I will wake you,” Killian says.
“Okay, any signs at all, you wake me. I don’t care if it’s just a flinch, wake me.”
I want and need to be awake beforehand to see what happens, how it begins, how it progresses, if it happens again, that is.
Leaning back, I close my eyes. I try to sleep, but it becomes almost impossible. Eventually, sleep does drag me down, though.
When I wake again, it hasn’t been long, I know it hasn’t because Serafine is still asleep.
“That was maybe an hour,” Killian chuckles.
“Yeah, well, I’m taking it as I’m not meant to sleep. Are we still on track?” I ask.
Killian nods, and I breathe out a sigh of relief, my body visibly relaxing. I don’t know why I’m holding so much tension. The worst that can happen is the Rogues stop us and demand we go back, refusing to let us pass through.
I’m hoping when I say we’re going to Nyvarras Hollow, they will let us pass purely to see the outcome of it. There’s a risk, though, that they have heard of Serafine and Eryx, and that they try to attack to grab them.
Their power is something that would be lethal in the hands of the rogues.
“Things will be fine, I can see the worry,” Killian says softly.
“Will they?” I rub my face and sigh. I didn’t want to accept that they were possibly the reason things are turning bad, but I have to accept the facts. “I’m not sure how I will handle things if it turns out this is bad, if her magic is bad.”
Killian watches me for a moment before replying. “You’re thinking about leaving her?”
“No, I wouldn’t do that,” I argue. Sighing loudly, I rub the back of my neck. I can’t leave her, I can’t be away from her anymore, not now. “I would need to give up the pack and walk,” I say.
His eyes widen, and he leans forward. “The pack is your life.”
My eyes go from him to where Serafine is asleep/cradling Eryx. “It was, nou constant damage, I’ll go where she goes.”
it isn’t. The fact is, if this goes bad at Nyvarras Hollow, and there’s going to be
“Well, if it’s her magic doing that to the crops, there has to be a reason. Let’s think of s
some.”
“There’s no good reason for anything to destroy crops, Killian, not that amount, but then to leave ours alive and fresh.” That’s where the issues begin, and there’s no logical reason for it.
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“Safety is one,” Killian explains, and I stare at him. “Right now, people are going crazy, most have never heard of Threadborn or Veyrathi, 4 searin them, so they want to destroy it. No crops in the packs make them weak. It helps protect her.”
1 scoff at that. “She’s proven she can protect herself with it is simply because her magic is dark and bad?”
an issue when her magic is ready. So the crops being destroyed aren’t for that reason Maybe.
“You don’t believe that,” Killian says. “I can
see it
eyes, you don’t believe that.”
”
“No, I don’t, but I’m running out of reasonable excuses,”
He nods and goes silent again for a long moment. “I guess difference. That does not mean it’s bad, though, Xander.”
I guess he’s right. “I’m going to see it was and, that
Te right, you’ve been fighting the fact that it’s not her causing it when that’s the only
“How much do you know about you and your changes?” he asks.
prepared.”
“Not much, apparently the mate of a threadborn, or Veyrathi, whichever does change, hence the Silvermane Hound I have. Apparently, I can also help her control her magic, which I’m not entirely comfortable doing, but I guess I will have to.”
“If you can help her with the magic, then help her; otherwise, you’re going to have issues when she struggles and you stand by and watch,” he explains.
I know that he’s right. I let the silence stretch for a long moment, and the rest of the night passed by in silence.
“We’re close to the rogue territory,” Killian says, and he straightens.
I should wake Serafine, but I would rather she sleep. I’m thinking tiredness might be something that makes controlling her magic hard. So for now, she can sleep. I won’t wake her until I have to.
Helena, however, wakes, she sits up straighter and looks outside. “We’re in rogue territory, I can feel it.”
That is going to take some time to get used to.
“How do you feel things? You don’t have your wolf,”
She smiles and turns to me. “I wasn’t born with one, I learnt though that the absence of my wolf wasn’t a bad thing. I had good instincts, I can sense things, sense people, how they are, what sort of person they are.” She smiles. “Same as I can sense how land is different, if there’s magic and such.”
“Which pack did you belong to growing up?” I ask.
“None, I was born and thrown out at a settlement city, I was brought up by random people, and never knew which pack I belonged to.”
“Your parents just threw you away?” I ask.
“Wouldn’t you?” She tilts her head. “Had your child had no wolf, seemed human, would you keep him?”
It’s a disgrace to have a child without a wolf, it’s frowned upon and seen as a failure and a sign that the pack is weak. I look toward Eryx. “No, I wouldn’t.”
“That is a lie, I sensed your panic, the unease, the hatred when you thought of it, you only decided no because you have Eryx, you’re thinking ab you feel about him, but he has a wolf, a strong one.”
how
Maybe she’s right? I don’t know, but I do know that I don’t like how she can sense everything that easily and rip apart people’s words without so much as lifting a hand.
