Page 170 of Gift from the Source
Sure, it sounded as though I was trying to lead her back out of its trap, but no. I was begging for her to find me. Save me once again because through her, it called me.
It promised me everything and more.
Including her. I could have her no matter what side I was on.
I’m not even sure she knows what we just had to witness.
Her skin changed first.
The fair shade paled to the point it became a sickly white. She looked like a corpse in a gorgeous gown with a crown on her head. I could map the flow of her blue veins through her arms. That was until they turned black. Then the color bled everywhere.
Her eyes changed next.
The deadly silver became just that. Dead.
For a fleeting second, violet peeked through. Her magnificent beast attempted to break through the control that was taking over them, but she couldn’t.
Where the black cloud came from, I’m not sure. The smoke was inside the globe of the Gods Binding, but there were shadows everywhere around her. Not my gift or her own. Something…other. It paralyzed us in her presence.
We couldn’t move. Couldn’t go to her. Couldn’t get closer.
Once we were finally able to break through to her mind, her body seized like something was trying to shove us back out.
I didn’t think I could be any more fearful than I was in that moment.
I was wrong.
Her roar shook us so violently, the hold the power had that was keeping us away snapped and we hit the ground.
I tried to reach for her.
I needed to touch her.
The words coming out of her were spoken so quietly I couldn’t hear them, but the sobs tearing from her sent me flying into the past.
My own wails sounded much like that when I was begging Elementra for a death that never came.
I was terrified that she was doing the same.
I swore, the death rattle that rocked her chest as she inhaled every particle of that power was the end.
As time has passed since she’s been here, I’ve concluded or at least it’s a hopeful assumption, that my Primary wouldn’t be killed for the simple fact Elementra wouldn’t allow it.
Granted, that gives me minimal peace of mind because there are worse things than death. But nonetheless, it’s a hope I’ve held on to knowing that she’ll survive anything put in front of her.
In that moment, though, I questioned it all.
The more I sit here and think about it, I can almost say confidently, if she had not beaten that power’s control…
Elementra would’ve called her to the beyond.
I slam my eyes shut as the fear rises in me swiftly once again.
No. My Primary has no idea what we just witnessed because she was busy battling it internally.
I will never tell her what we had to watch.
I never want that image in her mind.
