Chapter 63
King Rowland pov
The scream is so loud and deep that the earth beneath my feet weeps in pain. My wives come rushing to the throne room where I had been planning to close the barrier with my council. We have had no luck in finding my son and daughter. My daughter's familiar laid an egg that has gone gray Gigi stole it away before she laid with my daughter's sick drake. My fairy line has drakes as familiars the other fae have their own familiar and or connection to the source of wild magic. None of us know why the sky turned gray and lay a graying egg as it never happened before. My son’s familiar a small wood owl dropped from the sky dead with broken wings. Kalaban’s bloom is still alive telling me he is alive but the color faded telling me he was hurt. Maebug’s bloom keeps changing color and has become almost invisible.
Remy and Neeiles along with my wives spill in concern written all over their faces. “father what was that?” Neeiles asks as Remy stares at the ground along with his mother. “I don’t know son. Sura Remy what is it?” an odd look comes over their faces “I don’t know I feel a poison is coming. We have to close the barrier or the poison will come for us too.” sura says as she rushes to me. Sy's eyes glow as she tries to see anything in time. Neeiles calls his water to him and is in the same trance. My other children along with several guards come rushing in. “sir the wind pixies say a black cloud is coming toward the barrier. One flew out to it to see what it is only to drop to the ground running around as though he went mad. We took him to a healer but the first of us to get to him fell under the same thing so we had to find a creative way to bring them in. The animals are going crazy as are the wolves.”
My heart heavy with my choice I send out the call to have all fae back on this side as the doors are closing. The barrier will be locked until we know this new poison has cleared the land. Sy's eyes focus on me tears falling down her face the heartbreak I can see in her tells me what she say was not something we want to know. Once I got word that all fae are back home I and the rest of the kings and queens banded together to shut the barrier sealing us from the moral realm. Sending my prayers to my son and daughter hoping to see them again soon. But as long as their blooms are alive that will have to soothe my soul for now.
After the sealing, I was worn out. With the help of my wives, I head to our room leaving the boys to watch over this for me while I rest. Gigi follows behind holding a much smaller sky. Something is wrong with Maebug and there is nothing anyone can do about it. We couldn’t find her anywhere. With heavy hearts, we head to our room. Sura’s cobra rushing to her feeling her distress I am sure along with Yinny's snow owls and Sy’s penguin are all rushing to us. They all feel how heavy our hearts are. Making it to our room I shut the door locking it with my fire. Yinny coated the fire in her dust. Sura sends a poison vine to wrap around the cooling hardening fire. As Sy sends a wave of water over the new lock. All our magic combined locks our door so that no one can enter. We need some time to mourn the loss of our son and daughter. From the looks of their familiars and the color of the blooms, they won't be with us as long as we had planned.
Yinny is lost in herself holding Kalaban owl in her arms. The poor thing did not pass painlessly. The amount of pain Kal had to be going through to have his familiar die before he is unimaginable. When you are born your familiar is born. That familiar is with you all your life as your life and theirs are one. Why do fae have familiars that are simple why do witches. Because they help filter magic. Unlike witches who choose their familiar and share their magic with them to create a bond. Fae familiars are demons. They are bonded to you at birth. Depending on what line of familiars your bloodline had determines how a familiar is born. You and you're familiar are born and die at the same time. It's a balance thing I am sure I never questioned it before. I also never saw a familiar die before its counterpart.
Remy pov.
Watching our parents head down the hall sadness falls over us all. Looking at my brother “they think they will be okay?” with a shrug he looks at the swirling ball of water in his hand. “what do you see?” I ask. “I see the girl she just saved the shadow pack from a witch. I see she has two timelines one where it is good in the world and she brings us all back to the mortal realm and one where I see her pass at the hands of a wolf after she gives him a daughter. In one line I see Maebug's line grow and become strong and along with Kal bring us back to them and one with her on her knees bleeding from so many cuts I can't see her skin. In both lines, her heart stays pure and true her belief in something better never leaving her. Rem we have to do something to help her she's so strong and so weak at the same time. If we don’t help her the last of the dragons die with her. We can't let that happen could you imagine a world without the dragons.”
The room was silent with the sadness coming off of Neeiles. Along with being a seer, my brother is an empath, and when he's too worked up the emotions spill from him. Usually, someone else's emotions but the emotions spilling from him now are his. For Neeiles to have his own emotions override everything thing else takes a lot. Nodding I motion for us all to find a way to help this little she-wolf that is also somehow our niece.
