"We need you to tell them what is
happening as well as get the paperwork signed for your offical betrothal"
she said "I can safely assume you choose this of your own free will?"
Here it comes. The truth.
"I don't know if it's of my free
will but I do choose him. He feels right. We'll never know if it was free will,
the bond took that possibility
away." I say "all I do know is I have never felt more whole in my
life and in this moment I choose him. I choose to be next to him."
And there she went her eyes glazed over
a creamy faint pearl blue. She was having a vision.
Theo: is this what it looks like when a
Aweeee has a vision?
Orion: yeah,
freaky huh?
Theo: yeah she looks possessed. Shit
what was it like the first time you saw her have a vision?
Orion: I freaked out! I screamed so
loud at such a pitch I broke the mirrors in the room. I was crying hysterically
I thought she was dying. My brothers and their guards came rushing in.
Theo: how old were you?
Orion: I was probably
Theo: wow, I'd
have probably freaked out too.
Orion: oh yeah, it's a funny story now.
All of us have a first time. Alistar was also 8 and apparently and apparently
peed his pants. Alderic ran screaming down the hall that mom was possessed. I
can ask mom to make them all tell their stories.
Theo: I can't wait.
After about 3 minutes my mothers ice
blue eyes where once again visible
A smile sets is. A sort of sad one,
like your daughter leaving and getting married.
"What did you see?"
"I saw a scorched and scarred land
turn into a green pasture with flowers full of life" was all she said.
"That's it" I ask
"you're gone a solid 3 minutes, and that's it?"
"Orion, sometimes the simplest
things have the greatest and deepest of meanings and can take the longest to
see" her face softening as she smiled.
"Well I also have something I need
to share that I haven't gotten to yet with the whole sex and vision thing"
Theo chokes a bit
Theo: the sex ?
"I think I went to the netherworld
the other day when those beasts attacked…"
I thought I had seen shock before, but
no this was shock. My mother dropped her teacup
gasping covering her mouth, she actually lost her
composure. Theo spit out his tea all over the mahogany table.
"The netherworld?" They at
the same time
"You sound like Oleander and
Arragon, are you guys twins?" I laughed
"This is not funny Orion Anastasia;
this is very serious." My mothers tone dropping. She had her queen tone
now. "We need to get your father and brothers in here now, no one speaking
this am I understood?"
Theo: your mom's terrifying.
Orion: shes gonna be your mom soon
"Hahahaahahaaa" Theo and I
laughing hard
"Are you guys sharing
thoughts?" My mother said
" psshhh nooo" and we laughed
again.
"I can already tell I'm going to
hate the two of you" my mother said
"Tamra please inform the royal
family we will meet in the conference room in 30 minutes and please have our
usual refreshments in there ready."
"Theo, can you trust your
companions?" she's asked.
"I trust two with my life" he
answered
"Bring them with you, I have to
summon The Sisters."
Theo: who are The Sisters?
"They're the first witches."
I answered aloud.
My mother speaks first.
"The Sisters are the first
witches. They don't live forever but they do not die either. They are reborn.
Each sister playing one role. Maiden, Mother, and Crone. They are neither good
nor bad they simply are."
"Even though they are all three
the same they are all different. At the different stages of their lives they
have certain access to knowledge the others don't have. Only the crone has all
the knowledge that is newly learned and previously known. The maiden nor the
mother can know the information they learn there history at the same time they
live in real time"
"What does that mean exactly?" Theo
asked.
"So they can only know what they know
today and every day they're lived before. The maiden at 20 can only know what
the other maidens knew at 20. And that's how they age and learn and stay sane
after living for so many years. When one dies a new child is born from the
Maiden making her Instantly the mother and the mother now becomes the crone."
My mother answered.
"How can a baby be a maiden?"
"The baby ages quickly. More like a
human."
"Why have I never heard of them?"
"Because they are the closest to
the first of gods next to us. Ether gave them their power personally back when
the first gods roamed between the worlds. By now, to the rest of the world,
they are and old dying history."
"The royal family knows where they
are because my mothers family line were the elves that taught them how harness their magic. Our family
taught them all that they know making them all that they are." I chime in
"as long as the first of the gods breathe, they too shall breathe."
"As the son of the king of sun
elves, and now the crown prince to Elysium you and your companions will be the
first, not closely related to us, to greet them in a very long time. And that
is why I need to know, can I trust your companions" my mother asked
"you as well as them will be learning secrets older than most of your
kingdom. They like their privacy and don't want the people to summon them
regularly. So it is of the upmost certainty, they can be trusted."
"Yes" Theo says "I could
bet my life on it"
"Don't bet yours, bet hers"
my mother points at me "because it will be her life you lose that is the
price. The witches do not play and they will punish us both by taking her."
She then walks up to him, and her eyes
burned into his face "and if you make her pay the price, I will burn your
clan and this world to the ground" my mother growled.
Theo: I think I might have pissed my
pants.