to get back there?”
“Yeah, it’s easy to find,” Amber replied. “I can take you there anytime.”
Sin-dy and I looked at each other, was this the opening we were looking for?
“Can you tell us how to get there?” I asked. “You’ve been through enough already.”
“You don’t know my sister very well,” Jade said. “She’s going with you whether you like it or not, and don’t bother trying to talk her out of it, it’ll never work.”
“I think we talked enough for tonight,” said Kira. “The girls need to get some rest, I think we all do.”
Kira was right. She took the girls with her and made them comfortable alongside of Coral and Davina. It was the first time she could actually hold her daughter safely in her arms and watch her sleep. Tonight was hers, and surrounded by the girls she fell asleep embraced by all their love.
“I have to go to the meeting place with Amber tomorrow,” Sin-dy said. “I’m a familiar face and if we’re seen−”
“Don’t even go there Sin-dy,” Elektra cut in. “I’m coming too.”
“Me too Sin-dy, there’s no way around it,” I said. “Besides, if we have a problem, we’re going to need each other for protection.”
Deep in the heart of the hillside we had a surreal calm that was destined to be broken by a brewing storm and the world outside was probably raging with a search for the humans that had the power to kill one of their own. Amber had given us a ray of hope and perhaps we could glean some information from the meeting tomorrow that could give us the leverage we were looking for.
Elektra joined her sister amongst the girls and I made my bed on the other side of the enclosure they were in. Sin-dy looked at me and I opened up my blanket for her to lie next to me. We didn’t say a word but we knew that if we ever got out of Sarturas alive our relationship would be closer, maybe even the most special of relationships that two adults could have.
Tonight was for sleeping, but tomorrow was Kismet and I wondered, would she smile on us? We fell asleep to the sound of water trickling, the candles giving off their soothing light and the warm air flowing through our safe haven.
Chapter 10
Elementals
The following morning Sin-dy served up some flax seed crackers, fig jam, spirulina, roasted seaweed, and cool spring water.
My sisters had already talked and Kira agreed to stay behind with the girls, well, except for Amber. Just like Jade had mentioned yesterday, she wouldn’t take no for an answer, she was going with us. Sin-dy had woven Amber’s hair into a fire-red pigtail and she looked really pretty. I don’t know who my daughter’s mother is, but surely she must have some redeeming features, even for a demon.
Before leaving the hillside I had to ask my sisters about our father and our mothers.
“Did either of you know what the ‘ Midnight bloodlettings’ were all about?”
“We were talking about it this morning,” Kira said. “It’s what Sin-dy said about the Templars, maybe they were the intended victims of the rituals. Each time one was revealed the group probably met and cast a spell on them.”
“Yeah, and we think mom and dad were trying to protect us by keeping our powers secret from the group,” Elektra said. “If it was discovered that we were ‘special’ they would have wanted to dispose of us too. It’s the only way they could be sure we wouldn’t have used our powers against them once we were older.”
“So who raised you?” I asked. “If it wasn’t for Aunt Victoria, I don’t know what I would’ve done.”
“Victoria placed us with foster parents,” Kira said. “She told us we couldn’t stay with her, that it wouldn’t be safe for us all to be together, now we know what she meant by “all,” “Maybe our fosters were Templars, we never found out, they went missing in our late teens.”
“Aunt Victoria came by often,” Elektra said. “She told me I looked like mom, you know, beautiful and
“Yeah, it’s easy to find,” Amber replied. “I can take you there anytime.”
Sin-dy and I looked at each other, was this the opening we were looking for?
“Can you tell us how to get there?” I asked. “You’ve been through enough already.”
“You don’t know my sister very well,” Jade said. “She’s going with you whether you like it or not, and don’t bother trying to talk her out of it, it’ll never work.”
“I think we talked enough for tonight,” said Kira. “The girls need to get some rest, I think we all do.”
Kira was right. She took the girls with her and made them comfortable alongside of Coral and Davina. It was the first time she could actually hold her daughter safely in her arms and watch her sleep. Tonight was hers, and surrounded by the girls she fell asleep embraced by all their love.
“I have to go to the meeting place with Amber tomorrow,” Sin-dy said. “I’m a familiar face and if we’re seen−”
“Don’t even go there Sin-dy,” Elektra cut in. “I’m coming too.”
“Me too Sin-dy, there’s no way around it,” I said. “Besides, if we have a problem, we’re going to need each other for protection.”
Deep in the heart of the hillside we had a surreal calm that was destined to be broken by a brewing storm and the world outside was probably raging with a search for the humans that had the power to kill one of their own. Amber had given us a ray of hope and perhaps we could glean some information from the meeting tomorrow that could give us the leverage we were looking for.
Elektra joined her sister amongst the girls and I made my bed on the other side of the enclosure they were in. Sin-dy looked at me and I opened up my blanket for her to lie next to me. We didn’t say a word but we knew that if we ever got out of Sarturas alive our relationship would be closer, maybe even the most special of relationships that two adults could have.
Tonight was for sleeping, but tomorrow was Kismet and I wondered, would she smile on us? We fell asleep to the sound of water trickling, the candles giving off their soothing light and the warm air flowing through our safe haven.
Chapter 10
Elementals
The following morning Sin-dy served up some flax seed crackers, fig jam, spirulina, roasted seaweed, and cool spring water.
My sisters had already talked and Kira agreed to stay behind with the girls, well, except for Amber. Just like Jade had mentioned yesterday, she wouldn’t take no for an answer, she was going with us. Sin-dy had woven Amber’s hair into a fire-red pigtail and she looked really pretty. I don’t know who my daughter’s mother is, but surely she must have some redeeming features, even for a demon.
Before leaving the hillside I had to ask my sisters about our father and our mothers.
“Did either of you know what the ‘ Midnight bloodlettings’ were all about?”
“We were talking about it this morning,” Kira said. “It’s what Sin-dy said about the Templars, maybe they were the intended victims of the rituals. Each time one was revealed the group probably met and cast a spell on them.”
“Yeah, and we think mom and dad were trying to protect us by keeping our powers secret from the group,” Elektra said. “If it was discovered that we were ‘special’ they would have wanted to dispose of us too. It’s the only way they could be sure we wouldn’t have used our powers against them once we were older.”
“So who raised you?” I asked. “If it wasn’t for Aunt Victoria, I don’t know what I would’ve done.”
“Victoria placed us with foster parents,” Kira said. “She told us we couldn’t stay with her, that it wouldn’t be safe for us all to be together, now we know what she meant by “all,” “Maybe our fosters were Templars, we never found out, they went missing in our late teens.”
“Aunt Victoria came by often,” Elektra said. “She told me I looked like mom, you know, beautiful and
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