Page 78 of Forging Bonds: Part One

Doc nods, “Exactly. Anyway, time slowed, and I saw, standing in the forest beyond Neith, and the barrier was a man. He looked a bit more unkempt than that, but there is no doubt that it’s the same man.”

“Was he being threatening?” Reed asks.

Doc immediately shakes his head, “He wasn’t threatening at all. He smiled at me. He definitely seemed like he was happy watching us, I don’t know how to explain it, and he wasn’t worried that Neith fell into the barrier.”

“Oh,” Raiden says. “So, maybe he caused Neith to fall into the barrier?”

“Why though?” I ask with a confused frown.

River smiles, “It seems pretty obvious to me.”

When he stays silent, Griff rolls his eyes, “Care to share?”

“Think about it, Neith falling into the barrier at our place made the barrier so strong that nothing can get to us when we’re inside it. It protected her. If heis related to Neith, then it would make sense for him to want to protect her,” River explains.

There’s silence.

He actually said it out loud. I don’t know why I’m shocked; I mean, I know who they are to me, but they have quickly come to the conclusion that the people in the painting are my parents.

“There’s something else you should know about him,” I say.

“Yeah?” Ransom asks curiously.

I glance at Raiden, “Do you remember me telling you about Pete?”

He nods, smiling as he replies, “The regular at your bar and the one that helped you to buy your house?”

I nod, pointing at the painting, and I add, “Meet Pete.”

“No fucking way!” River suddenly exclaims, his eyes wide as he bounces on his toes, “This is nuts.”

I nod, “Yep.”

“So he’s been keeping an eye on you then,” Van says.

“Only since I have been in the town. I never met him before then,” I reply.

“Your eyes match theirs,” Raiden mutters, shock coating his tone, and all of the guys turn to look at me and then glance back at the painting a couple of times.

“Holy shit, you’re right,” River adds.

“She was the last of her kind, an angel,” I say, and all of their eyes widen slightly as they continue to put the pieces together.

“Sully said you take after your mother,” Raiden says, and I can see the wheels turning in his mind, “and an angel was on the list of creatures that Winston told us to look at. We sort of breezed past it because they were so rare when they weren’t extinct that it just didn’t occur to us that it was possible.”

“Sully knows the King and Queen. We saw that in the vision, and all of the others too,” Griff says, his expression as shocked as mine was when I was first making the connection.

“It would make sense in a weird way,” Van adds.

I nod, “I mentally asked if it was possible that they were my parents, just in a holy shit could they be my parents, kind of way, and the voices said yes.”

“The voices? Your voices?” Raiden asks.

I nod, “Yeah, so I wanted to ask again without any room for interpretation of the answer, and they said yes, they are.”

“That’s what, the second time that you have actually heard them?” River asks.

I nod, “Yes.”

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