The ride back to the castle was filled with Xavier's laugher. I let smiled and thought about something I would need to speak to Mother about. I pulled us to a stop when a young vampire stumbles out of the woods.
"Shit!" I said as I swang off Nightmare. "Little one!" I ran over to him and rolled him over. He was covered in bruises and he had a pendent with what looked like a Northern clan crest but it was hard to see since it was warn down. "Are you kidding me?" I hissed as Maxwell came up beside me.
"We need to get him to a healer." Maxwell said picking him up.
"Agreed." I said as I look at Xaiver and then mounted up.
"Will he be okay?" He asked me.
"I don't know little one." I said as we set the horses off as fast as possible.
"Maxwell and I will take him to the healer you need to get him back to your Mother before the spell wears off." Marga said as she rode next to me.
"Right." I growled hating that I could not go with the hurt little one but understood that I need to care for my brother first.
"I hate it when children get hurt." I tell him and I helped him get down off the horse.
"I need you to stick close." I tell her.
"Okay." He said as I walked with him to the stable and put Nightmare away and undid his saddle.
"I will be back later to brush you." I pat Nightmare and then lead Xavier back to the suite.
"Hey did you enjoy the ride?" Mother asked.
"It was so much fun! The horse went so fast!" He tells her. "Nightmare is so pretty!" I smiled as Mother looked at me.
"Did your sister take you to the outlook?" Father asked him as he looked up from his paperwork.
"Yes!" He giggles and runs to him and hugs him. Father smiled and hugged him back.
"Mother, can I speak to you for a minute?" I asked her.
"Sure." She said looking worried.
"Nothing bad." I tell her and lead her out of the suite.
"What is it?" She asked me.
"I want to get Xavier a horse he seemed to love riding. However I don't know if you would be okay with that since I have no idea how often you all will be here." I said speaking the reality of it even if it made me choke up.
She sighed and Nodded. "We live on a ranch. We have a barn where we can keep a horse for him. Besides your right but it's like a child leaving the nest. I will be getting you a phone so we can keep in touch." I smiled at her and nodded.
"Well that will probably be the second most wanted thing to make communication easier." I told her.
"Agreed." She said as we went back into the suite.
"My Lady!" I stopped before I could close the door.
"What is it?" I asked.
"The King needs you." He tells me.
"Very well thank you." I turned and followed him out of the castle and headed to the healer.
"Love." He said from where he was sitting.
"Hey what is going on?" I asked him.
"The young man you guys bought is awake." He sighed and he grabbed my hand.
"What is going on?" I asked him as I knelt down to him.
"Do you remember when I told you my mother ran away from my father since she was not his mate?"
"Yes." I said softly.
"My Mother found her mate." He said softly looking at the pendent.
"Is the young one your brother or nephew?" I asked him.
"My Brother." He said softly.
"Where's your Mother?" I asked him.
"He said the monster got her." I tilted my head.
"Monster?" I asked.
"He wouldn't say."
"Do you want me to talk to him?" I asked him.
"If you could." He said.
"Yea." I told him and patted his hand and kissed his cheek before I stood up and went inside.
"My Lady." Healer Gabby said bowing.
"Healer Gabby." I nod at her.
"Here to see the youngling." She asked me.
"Yes." I nodded.
"He's in the back room." She tells me.
"Thanks." I said as I walked back to the room. I knocked on the door. "May I come in?" I asked.
"Yes." A small voice came.
I opened the door and stepped in and then closed the door behind me. "Hey Buddy I am Diana."
"Conner." He said softly.
"Can I sit on the bed, Conner?" I asked him. He nodded but said nothing and I sat next to him.
"You want to know about the Monster?" He asked me.
"Only if you want to talk about it."
"No." He said, shaking his head.
"Okay you don't need to." I told him. "Where did you live?" I asked him.
"Near the wall." He said softly.
"How did you get here?" I asked him.
"Momma told me to run."
"When was this?" He shook his head and I took a deep breath and then let it out and pulled my shirt showing him my scar on my side.
"I got this from a really bad man." I told him as I ran my fingers along it. "Did you have a bad man?" I asked him.
"Not a man, a beast. Momma said the monster was born a beast." He said as he ran his fingers.
I stopped and leaned back as I thought about it. "Is the monster Oliver?" He whined and looked away. "He will not get you here, little one. Logan will never let you be hurt." I tell him as I pat his head. A knock made me look up.
"I have some meds and blood." A nurse called out.
"Come in." I said.
"My Lady." She nodded to me. "I need you to step out."
"Of course." I said standing up and he grabbed my hand. I looked at him. "I'll be back once you get the meds and blood in you." I tell him softly and I walk out so they can head out for them to do what they need to.
"Love?"
"Conner calls Oliver Monster." I said with a sigh.
"He found Mother?" He hissed at me.
"It seems so." I told him. "He said he came from the wall." He sighed.
"Father never thought to look near the wall." He said.
"I think you should go." I told him. "Take Maxwell and find her; she may still be alive." I said softly. He looked at me. "Father and I can handle the paperwork and whatever else comes into play."
"Okay." He said as I sent a shadow to my Father as I went back into the healers house.
"Dad, can you bring Xavier to the healer house." I asked the shadow.
"Yeah I can but what's going on?" Father's shadow asked.
"Ex-queen Miranda may have been found and she's had at least one more child around Frank's age and I thought Xavier might be a good friend for the young one. And all the other young ones are currently in classes."
"Point taken. I'll bring Xavier." He said as his shadows left.
"Healer, I hope that it's okay if I bring someone Conner's own age here to spend time with him."
"I think that would be a great idea." Healer Gabby said. "We can show him what we want to do with them."
"No." I said calmly. "The young one coming isn't a Vampire and before you say it he has a spell on him that will silent his heartbeat."
"Okay as long as the heartbeat can not be heard that should be fine." She sighed.
"I can be your ginny pig." I offered.
"That works." She nods as Father and Xavier.
"Come on, let's go visit the little one!" I said. "Also Healer I am sorry but one of the elders will probably come later with a bunch of paperwork for me."
"I figured my Lady." She said with a smile.
"I'm sorry." I told her.
"Oh no I understand I would be in there filling out my paperwork talking to him."
I smiled at her and headed back to the room. "Come in." A soft voice when I knocked.
"Hey I brought some company." I said as I stepped back and held the door opened.
"Oh…" He said softly.
"Hi I'm Xavier!" He said as Father set him on the bed.
"I'm Conner." He said softly.
"It's nice to meet you!" Xavier said. "Are you okay?"
"No, the monster came." He shook his head.
Xavier licked his lips and held out his hands and he started muttering a language that sounded familiar. Lights raised out of his hands were dim but bright each on was a different color as the bumped into each other they changed colors.
"Wow." Conner and I said.
"Momma taught me this." Xavier said.
"I think she taught me it or something similar." I said softly.
Breath it was not light but lighting they showed you. My dragon said. You can do this. Repeat lux lucis igniculos and vision them jumping from the lights.
"Lux lucis igniculos." I muttered and sparks of lighting shot from my hand to one of the orbs and then bounced around them.
"Oh wow." both Xavier and Conner said.
"Agreed.