Chapter 85
Over the next few days, it's been a lot of meetings and fighting about how to do something. Who will need to be on the other side of time to balance what needs on this side? To be honest it's been a huge mess. The only bright side is Mia. She reminds me of Addie so much. Mia demands to spend as much time with me as she can cause soon I will be gone and so will her brother. She also knows she won't be around when I go back. She wants to make sure we both have as many memories as we can with as little time we have left.
Yesterday I woke feeling like the world hates me. Weak freezing. My empty stomach threatened to expel air leaving my sides and chest in pain. Warm hands rub my back humming to me. There are no sparks so I know it's not Rhett. With the heat I know it's Mia. “you are gonna have to keep your fire burning a bit hotter. The little one is a part dragon after all.” I should have known my fire was low the pack house was feeling cooler by the day. I didn’t need a test to tell me Rhett had been right about there being a pup inside me. My fathers are gonna kill me.
By the third day of this, I had enough everything was annoying me and most of all I could not stay warm. I want to go home where I have things like heating blankets and heated socks. I can go into my shower turn on the steam shower setting and just soak. but I can yet. Things still needed gathering. And the witches needed my blood to pull at the fae side of my bloodline. Setting age protection in it asks if it will still try to go to Jordan first since we share the strongest blood bond.
I had been pacing this room for days by the time someone had an answer to all the questions and a plan. The spells and potions are brewing it's going to take four elementals, the alpha, myself, Rhett, and six witches. To counter that we figure they need two fae, the queen, and ten witches. I had asked if hybrid witches/wolves do. And with the added mixed magic of the two races would help increase the magic. This is good since aunt Bronwyn is the Luna to a packcoven of a lot of hybrid wolves. They are a unique set of people. Some take after the wolf some the witch and the rare ones take after both.
It was finally the day of the full moon and its a blood moon. It's the strongest moon when it shows up. We had planted a time capsule spell for the queen to find. Why send it to the queen? Well, that's easy shes on bed rest at the moment so I know exactly where she is. This last pregnancy has been hard on her telling us all the baby is special and different than the queen. I think it's the next royal oracle. The queen's grandmother passed away a few years ago and the pack still has not found an oracle. Aunt Bridget is an oracle and she helps the shadow pack as much as she can but she is out to beta and has no plans to not be. This is respected and so the goddess would want a strong wolf to be the oracle to her daughter. Well, not her daughter per se but they do share a bloodline.
Heading out an open field we set the spell up. Mia has disappeared. Not in a, she's been taken more like I thought I could watch you leave but I can't. And I get it I am having a hard time myself. Coming to the center of the pentagram the witches drew in ash and salt. Five candles sit at the points of the star. Air earth wind water spirit. These will be called upon by the witches and myself. The elementals will join in when we feel our magics line up and sync to each other the alpha will spill three drops of his blood. Now the hard part standing in front of me with a silver dagger in his hand. I take the one I had on my hip. Looking into the eyes each other linking “I love you now and after this. I will see you again.” “little wolf I will count the day between now and I have you in my arms. I love you now and to the end of time” with that, we say the words that will seal the lake. “I break the bonds that tie us to each other setting you free.” slashing our daggers across each other's hearts. My neck burns as Rhett's mark burns its way off my neck leaving behind a black spot. My heart felt like it was ripping apart. I can see Rhett is suffering the same. Flashes of chad screaming into the sky grabbing his chest.
Rhett starts to glow white as bright as the snow. Shifting into an ice-white dragon smaller than his black dragon. A pull has me lifting to the air following behind as he drifts towards the lake. At the shore, I am set down my toes just in the water. Rhett curls up in a sleeping pose resting his head on his front legs. His wings laying down on his back. He freezes turning to ice as he slowly sinks to the center of the lake. Right where the cave is. Once he touches the water it starts to freeze as he sinks. The deeper he goes the whiter the lake turns. I can feel the leaves of the lake freezing and the fish diving below Rhett. Staying in the warm water.
Rhett landed on the top of the cave and settled. From the base of his feet to the surface of the lake frozen solid. So while it shines like a polished mirror. The lake from his feet down was untouched. Leaving Janet alive in a warm dry cell. She has food and water source and a few hundred years to think about what she's done.
All too soon I feel a tug in my stomach. Fearing I was about to lose my dinner I rush to the bushes to get dizzy on the way. The world spinning. Black dots dance on the edge of my vision. Blinking to wash them away and the world is black. Blinking again and the light is so bright I flinch and close my eyes.
“ash talk to me baby”
