Page 31 of Whispered Warnings: Part Two

Sully nods and manages to get out through gritted teeth, “Yes.”

I roll my eyes, “Fucking prophecies, I hate being told what to do.”

Surprised laughter fills the room at my words, temporarily lightening the mood.

“It’s not really so much being told what to do,” Sully starts and then immediately stops, frowning darkly.

I guess that’s all that he could tell me about that.

Fantastic.

“I don’t suppose it sounded like this: the darkness brews, the light pushed back, the voices whisper, don’t fall off track, pain and sadness, the pressure mounts, don’t lose sight of what counts. Death, death, death,” Raiden asks.

Sully shakes his head, “No, but that doesn’t sound good. Who had that vision?”

“Ty,” Van replies.

Sully pulls a face and then shakes his head, “Ty doesn’t have visions.”

“That’s what we said,” Ransom replies. “We figured that he either had a one-off vision or someone very powerful was using him to speak to us.”

Sully’s eyes light with knowledge as he taps the side of his nose, signaling that Ransom is on the right track.

“Do you know who?” I ask because that seems like an important question to ask.

Sully shakes his head, “It could actually be a number of people, so there’s no way of knowing for sure which one it was.”

My eyes widen, “A number of powerful supes could have given Ty the vision?”

Sully nods but doesn’t say anything else, and the room falls silent for a moment while we try to wrap our heads around what we’ve found out or rather not found so far. Wait, my parents triggered it when I was born. That’s what he said.

“So, my parents are, or were here?” I ask. I know logically that they have to be, I’m not forty odd years old, so I wasn’t born in Trieneliea, but it’s something that I feel the need to ask.

“Yes, they were here,” Sully replies, frowning heavily.

“Are they still around?” I ask because I can’t quite bring myself to ask if they are dead.

Sully shrugs, “I honestly don’t know. They had togo into hiding.”

I frown, “Hiding?”

“Is that why Neith was put in the care of my parents?” Evander asks. “Because her parents had to go into hiding.”

Sully nods but can’t seem to get any words out as his lips become a flat line, and he narrows his eyes. Okay, so that’s clearly something else that he can’t talk about.

“Why can’t I remember anything from before then?” I ask.

Doc interjects and looks at Sully, “Nod if you can, if I’m on the right track.” He continues, “I would imagine that it was for safety reasons. If they needed to hide, then we can assume that someone was after them. If the someone who was after them caught them and used magical means to find out about you. You would be much safer if they could categorically say that you knew nothing.”

Sully taps his nose again, signaling that Doc is right.

I nod. “Yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense. There is no point questioning someone who you know doesn’t know anything.”

“Exactly,” Sully replies. “There are ways to ensure that someone is telling the truth as well, so if your parents were questioned, it wouldn’t be a case of just taking them at their word. Whoever questioned them would know for certain that you didn’t know anything.”

“I understand the secrecy a bit.” I reply, “I mean, I understand why it was needed when I was younger, but I don’t understand why I can’t know now. I also don’t know why I can’t know what kind of supernatural my mother was.”

Sully frowns, “You really should know.”

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