I turn my head and meet the eyes of the old omega. “We can help her. I know we can. If I can hear her voice, I can find her and save her. I can bring her back. She should never have been there!” I shout. “Why would you be so cruel?”
“The offer was not my decision. She knew what she was doing!”
I grip my hair, pulling, screaming inside and out. “No! How could you do this to her? Where is she? I’m going to bring her back!”
“She’s not born yet. She lives for a blink of an eye and then disappears again. Only called when the world is on the brink of ruin,” the All-Seer says gently.
“Why would you curse her to live so miserably? Why would you do that to someone?” I snap. “To her!” I turn back to the viewer, searching again, just in case I missed her.
She tilts her head to the side. “What would you have done?”
“I wouldn’t have sent her alone, and why only pain? Why suffering? What’s the point? Why is the world more important than her? Why can’t we just let the humans destroy each other?”
“She protects what we have built, and she protects everyone who lives there because what affects them affects us. We need them, and they need us,” the All-Seer says, but I don’t care.
I growl and turn back to the viewer.Please.
She takes a breath and pauses.
“Spit it out or go away,” I snap.
“They sent her scent matches with her. She wasn’t the only one. Does that make you feel better? Knowing she wasn’t alone?”
The world has tilted upside down, and I am falling, falling. There isn’t a heart in my chest, just a cavity that is pain. I am going to die from it. No one could live through this.
“Her scent matches?” I whisper, trying not to sound too broken.
“Yes, she had two. I called them forth and gave them the option. Both of them took one look at her and signed up at once. She didn’t go alone. She will have love, epic love for the short time she lives.”
“And lose them over and over?” I roar. “What kind of life is that? How could you…why would you…” I stop, leaning over the viewer, finally seeing the empty chamber that used to be gold. I’ve turned it snow white, frozen icy white. The gods that were in here have fled, and it’s just me and the All-Seer.
I try to think, but my brain won’t let me think past anything but what horrors that they have inflicted on her.
“How do I bring her back?” I shout.
She shakes her head. “You can’t. It’s done. It was done a long time ago.”
“Time is relative. It means nothing. Bring her back.”
“Winter Alpha, there is no one here who has that power.”
“What happened to the others, then?” I snap, furious all over again.
“The others?” The old omega sits on the side of the brick wall surrounding the world viewer.
“Her counterparts.”
“Ah, well, it just so happens she only has an alpha counterpart.”
I stop, feeling like I’m going to vomit. “Did you…did you morons send the Luna Omega to Earth to suffer for all eternity?” The horror of it. The most graceful and strongest of all omegas. One who is rarely seen out in public. She’s almost a myth. I start to shake. The omega whom I suspect is mine.
The All-Seer sighs. “I was not consulted, but yes, they decided. I just took steps to mitigate their idiocy before it ended all of us.”
“What about her scent matches and their counterparts?” I wheeze and find myself on my knees. The pain is unimaginable. Of all the places I searched, I never thought she would be so far away from me.
“They removed themselves from counsel, and the threads binding them were cut. The counterparts now live alone in their territories, waiting until another counterpart is spawned to balance out the missing.”
“As nothing but figureheads? They could have stopped them!” I spit out and push back to my feet, leaning over the omega. “What were they thinking?” I howl.
