?I scoff at her and shake my head. Once again telling us we’re wrong but not explaining how or why.
?“It might help if you would just tell us the actual truth for once.”
?Her eyes shift to a deeper shade but nothing changes about her aura or scent.
?“The truth,” she says quietly, darkly, deadly, “is you should have never touched that prophecy to begin with. It is not your fate to make him remembered. You and that leader of yours are just children wanting to play at being gods by enacting aprophecy that is going to get you all killed. You didn’t even know what the true words of it were. You simply want to prove something and your egos are telling you you’re right when you are the furthest you could ever get from the truth.”
?Her words cut like I’m sure she intended with trying to hit my pride, but she is wrong.
?“That prophecy was spoken to my worthless excuse of a father – “
?“It was spoken to the stars,” she snaps, flashing her fangs and her eyes turning bloodred. “That ninth seeing oracle – damn her fucking sight – did not speak it to your devil father who asked for the future. She turned her eyes to the stars and spoke it towards them. That devil just so happened to be there.Christ!” She lets out a groaned growl and shakes her head. “That fucking oracle. She’s lucky she’s no longer alive or I’d strangle her goddamn neck.”
?Righting herself, Mavyn turns glaring eyes back to me and scrunches her nose.
?“No,” she asserts. “None of you know anything.”
?“Then tell us.” And we all turn towards glaring golden eyes within a ring of black and twin blood moons. “Why won’t you tell us?” Callahan growls.
?Thorne looks more composed than the devil, but I know his hands in his pants pockets are fisted and his entire body is rigid with strain from his own frustration.
?The bloodsucker’s bloodred eyes flick back and forth between the devil and demon before she turns away and stares at the books in front of her. Walls upon walls going up within her until all you can read from her is her irritation.
?“None of this will matter soon enough,” she mutters with a shake of her head. “You’ll all be free of me soon.”
?Callahan’s aura roars as it floods the library and his hand claws over his heart. Mavyn doesn’t even twitch at it even though it does make me and my true form wince.
?He stalks over and slams his hands into the table as he pleads with her. The agony is written all over his face and it’s heard through his voice as he begs.
?“Why? Why won’t you let me in? What do you need me to do to be good enough?Please,” he strains. His voice cracking and his eyes watering. “I will do anything. Please, just tell me why you hate me.”
?Not a single twitch of a muscle is made from the bloodsucker. As if she didn’t hear him – or doesn’t care. How could someone be so dismissive about their fated?
?She slowly blinks and then doesn’t even look at him as she says, “I do not hate you, but this tie between us is not a choice.”
?“MAVYN!” Thorne roars. Losing his cool and collected persona as he releases a single wave of his own aura. “We’ve talked about – “
?“And I have told you!” She stands up so abruptly it sends her chair flying back. Finally looking at two of her fated with so much controlled anger. Her aura only now trickling from her and it holds nothing but cold fury. “There is no working through this! There is no accepting this! Iwillbe ripping my soul and destroying it. Erasing this fate between all of us and then you will be free of me.”
?Thorne grits his teeth as he breathes deeply, trying to reign some control. “You are already cemented with Varian. If you do that you will kill him.”
?She straightens her back and goes impossibly still. Too still. Primordially still.
?“Why do you think I’ve kept on to this wish for so long?”
?Oh unholy gods.
?My soul flinches and my true form deflates within me.
?“You’re going to un-cement the tie between you and Varian,” I breathe. A statement, because that’s the only thing she could mean by that.
?She’s not breaking their fate, as I don’t even think a wish on a true wishing star could do that, she’s only un-cementing it. And then she’s going to break their fates by killing her soul. It might not kill them as breaking a cemented bond between fated could, but they’ll wish for death with how it’ll feel.
?My brother. Mytwin.
?My heart aches for him and the curse he’s unfortunately fated to. What a wretched being for forcing them to be put through that. Hate isn’t even a close enough word to describe how I feel about this woman. This female who I would rather make forgotten here and now then let her subject my brother to that type of pain.
?She twists and begins slamming the tomes shut. Leaving them on the table, and without another word, she snatches her bag and begins walking out. A second later the water mage follows with her little boyfriend trailing behind. Both of them silent.
